Mobile/Notes/17-Aug-2011

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Schedule

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Front-end

• Firefox 6 release
  • Took two session-store patches in the RC, managed to fix one bug but failed to fix the other. Decided not to block release; shipped anyway. (bug 669289, bug 676780).
• Firefox 7 beta
  • Some fixes landed on Aurora before the migration to beta:
    • bug 676780 - handle corrupt sessionstore files
    • (bug 671555) - Fix the "force add-on compatibility" option in the Feedback extension
    • (bug 674791) - Fix for a text selection bug
• Tablet UI
  • Working on follow-up bugs listed on Fennec/Features/TabletUI
  • Will be working on visual design changes as UX provides them
• Text selection
  • Several fixes landed in Aurora for Fx7
  • More fixes landing in Fx8/9.
• Web Apps
  • Open Web App API support (bug 609043) landed but was backed out because it made an existing Android browser-chrome timeout become permaorange.
    • Working on the test failure; this may affect other upcoming patches too.
• Master Password
  • Front-end patch reviewed and landed for Firefox 8 (bug 592772).

UX design

• full steam ahead on tablet UI theming (ian)
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/sets/72157627325688069/detail/
  • assets landing in bugs; one so far for actionbar bug 679472, more to come
• looking into html5 form validity check ui (brian)
• reviewing about:home refresh to see if it's ready for development
• writeup of readability design here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/Features/readability
• feedback please: what do you think of the Home Screen icons?

Platform Support

Android

• jchen fixed talos on the tegras
• Master password UI finally landed, auto-password part is on hold until another security review of the whole profile-on-SD-card feature
• New Wiki page for keyboard/IME. If you have any useful information about that, please add here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Keyboard

Maemo

Performance

Testing

QA

• currently testing the 7.0b1-candidate
• Crash Rep Aug 15, 2011
  • Crashes per build id Report 2011-08-15
  • Fennec 5.0 Explosiveness 2011-08-15
  • Fennec 6.0 Explosiveness 2011-08-15
  • bug 664510 - Get valid crashreporter reports again
    • 25 % ~ 50 % of reports for each version are missing valid stack signatures.
• Soccoro/Bug Reports
  • Soccoro 2.2 released
  • bug 679065 - Some Fennec 6.0b6 topcrash signatures return an empty report list

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

• bug 674830 - multilocale fixed
• bug 676822, bug 677348 - trying to fix or work around tinderbox/colo slowness
• bug 672564 - dougt and vlad now have tegra image source
  • bug 678992 - /etc/hosts should be removed from tegras shortly
• bug 678722 - should mobile desktop builds be using gcc 4.5?

Other