Mobile/Notes/15-Jun-2011

Details

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• 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

• Fennec 7 (nightly)
  • This is the active development trunk
• Fennec 6 (aurora)
  • The door is closing for new patches
• Fennec 5 Betas (beta)
  • Beta 4 - Shipped
  • Beta 5 - Tested but did not ship
  • Beta 6 - Tested but did not ship (Had a desktop backout that affected mobile)
  • Beta 7 - Built and we plan to ship it (Has a desktop security fix and a minor ride-along for mobile)

Major Topics for This Week

• BETA 7
  • Yes, we have a beta 7 and we plan to ship it (android market and ftp) when desktop release beta 7
  • Security fix for desktop
  • Minor UI issue for mobile
    • bug 664114 - Context Menu doesn't resize properly when switching the window orientation
    • Found Tuesday morning by QA in Beta testing
    • We would not have shipped this if desktop wasn't spnning a beta 7

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx7 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
• Landing bug fixes
• Cranking on new code:
  • Tablet UI
  • Selecting text in web content
  • Language picker on startup
  • Basic webapp support

• You can switch the themes at runtime, using about:config or using Wes' add-on bug 663861
  • Even run Gingerbread theme on desktop :)

• Look into using doorhangers in Fennec bug 661148
  • Talked with Madhava about where to move next. Moving forward at the same time mockups/ux discussion happen.

• Know your ABCs (Always Be Coding)
  • If you get stuck on something, have a backup project to fallback.
  • Keep patches and reviews moving forward.

UX design

• Ian out of office
• working on discoverability prototypes, fxhome, honeycomb UI, Android widgets
• detailed updates here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/User_Experience/Meeting_Notes#Monday.2C_June_13

Platform Support

Android

Maemo

Performance

Testing

QA

Firefox 5 beta sign offs 5, 6 and 7

• only shipping beta 7
• 5b7 test plan details

DeviceAnywhere device validation

• Crash report
  • There's a good chance that crash bugs: bug 662934 and bug 662943 are related
  • bug 662944 honeycomb crashes doesn't have appropriate signatures
    • See bug 662941 for example
  • chat.mibbit.com crash bugs - [special thanks to Nicolae Cristian [xti] for comment in bug 635292]
    • bug 663468 - crash [@ GetElement]
    • bug 663465 - crash [@ nsWebSocketEstablishedConnection::ConsoleError]

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• releases
  • (aki) bug 664002 - Fennec 5.0b6 - done, not shipped
  • (aki) bug 664307 - Fennec 5.0b7 - done, ready to push live
  • (aki) bug 663986 - Fennec 5.0 - waiting for 'go'
  • bug 574764 - port mobile releases to 0.8 automation - revised ETA ~6.0b2 or b3.
• tegras
  • Tegra unit tests are now unhidden on the Firefox tbpl page.
  • [FIXED] bug 643607 - browser-chrome T-FAIL
  • [FIXED] bug 663582 - increase output for logcat and also add a logcat dump just before reboot
  • [FIXED] bug 663197 - remove a couple of directories from mochitest-1 for android tests

Other