Mobile/Notes/09-Feb-2011
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- Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
- irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
Schedule
- Beta 5
- Code Freeze: Feb 15
Major Topics for This Week
Front-end
- Working on Beta 5 blockers (17 this morning)
- Working on some 2.0 blockers as well (91 this morning)
- Focusing on the big 3 issues: Performance, Rendering and Memory Usage
UX design
Maemo
Qt
Android
- android specific b5 blockers
- bug 632649 - warn of incompatibility for 256Mb devices, eta: today
- bug 630364 - launch youtube player without external app warning, ready to land
- bug 632170 - downloaded files should be saved in public place, ready to land
- bug 632037 - change opt flags, ready to land
- bug 632526 - report startup time correctly ready to land
- already landed
- bug 615519 - move profile data to sd card when app is moved to sd card
- size on disk 152k according to android when moved to sdcard
- bug 614356 - default to next button when return has no action
- bug 615519 - move profile data to sd card when app is moved to sd card
Electrolysis
General Platform
Video
Camera
Plugins
Performance
- A few nice landings
- Tp reduced by 14.5% in general (bug 632005)
- Ts reduced by 3.5% in general (bug 626457)
- Ts reduced by 9% on Android (bug 632490 and bug 632497)
- More coming in bug 632417, bug 623136
- vfp flags patch helped improve performance in general on Android (bug 632162)
- We need to test on Maemo
- Font cache patch is in review and should help Ts more on Android (bug 623136)
- Opt flags patch ready to land should improve performance in general at the cost of a size increase (bug 632037)
- Keep looking for ways to make Fennec faster!
- Just got the e10s profiling tool to work on Android devices; will have data soon, hopefully will help here.
Networking
- MFinkle is working on a new mobile Tp pageset
- List of pages seems ok
- Doing the cleanup to make the resources completely static
- Will work with ateam and releng to get the new pageset on tindebox
Graphics
Startup
Layout
- Reftests now support <browser remote="true"/> but the way it was implemented still has some blockers for running on devices. See bug 593874
Content
Release Engineering
- tegras
- 5 talos suites in production
- potential refactor of the helper daemon to help prevent runaway reds/purples. stability fixes tracked in bug 610600
- n900s
- fixed tp4 orange -- my bug
- disable mochitest 2,3?
- android updates - patches for disabling release updates, fixing early nightly snippet upload ready to roll out
- bug 630475 - single locale debs broken. tarball works; deb doesn't. ideas?
QA
- Top crashes last week
- Waverley Results
- Nightlies do not load thanks to a regression from Windowless Plugins
- VKB bugs
- Blocking bugs including bug 617298 which caused people to wonder if other SKBs were being tested.
- Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet - Work in progress, please add any missing criteria you would like to see that deem a device compatible or not
- fennec related jscript crashers research