Mobile/Notes/23-Jun-2010

Details

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Schedule

• 1.1 rc 1 is out!
• Onward to 2.0 alpha 1
  • Code freeze ~ June 30

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

• Fennec 2.0
  • Primary effort right now is getting e10s functionality into mobile-browser
  • e10s Worklist has some details on the things we are doing
  • electrolysis + mobile-browser is functional, more work going on to stablize, support panning/zooming and support tests
  • We are still finding and getting fixes for numerous crashes on mozilla-central and electrolysis
  • Planning 2.0 has been updated, although some of the details and priorities need to be set
  • Work continued on an "Understanding e10s for Add-on Developers" document
  • Blog posts about Mobile + Electrolysis are forthcoming as well

UX design

• 1.1 field guide still finished, waiting to post
• design ideas/feedback to feedback tools (aakash) and "Join Our Community" page (Caitlin)
• Sean working on Android theme this week; also working on a mobile version of "about add-ons" content (early version of desktop one)
• working through Planning 2.0 to get the list in order, and to put all our design materials in details pages
  • Planning 2.0 page has a lot of in-progress content at the moment - do not panic!

Maemo

Qt

Android

• fully functional nightlies building off of trunk
• top priorities
  • keyboard interactions (mwu)
  • startup/shutdown/resume (blassey)
  • e10s (mwu)
  • layers/gles (vlad)
  • protocol handlers (brad)
  • multitouch (mfinkle?)

Electrolysis

• completed a difficult m-c -> e10s merge last night
• bz is a bit over 2/3 of the way through the e10s sr. (eta at end of week)

General Platform

Geolocation Working Group

Video

Camera

• Raw Decoder landed but bounced over the weekend due to intermittent timeouts on Linux 32bit debug tests.
• Image encoder patch ready to land, r+ and sr+.
• Discussed proposed interfaces with roc, updating patch for the binding.

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:Priorities
• New fremantle/fremantle-qt nightly repos
• Maemo5 QT l10n (multilocale deb, single locale repacks)
• Android m-c + mobile switchover
• Android NDK r4 + Crystax update
• Android SDK r8 update
• Aki working on Android, Maemo5-{gtk,qt} release builders
• Bear working on SUTAgentAndroid integration
• N900 PR1.2 in production
• Testing for all n900's has been fixed
• Mobile builds moving to buildbot-0.8.0
  • what coverage is desired
• Working on getting try support for maemo5 and android on new try server

QA

Manual

• notes:
  • bugs filed on the Fennec product over the past week
  • Added Idea Wiki for Add-ons we'd like made (but don't have the time to make)
  • Sent out e-mail to mobile@moz about feedback on Beta Tools
  • vetted 39 litmus test reports for Waverley and updated testcases as well as followed up on bugs filed
• goals for upcoming week (in order of priorities) :
  • look through bugzilla UNCONFIRMED/NEW bugs, Litmus Tests and maemo forums post-release
  • Get update on 2.0 project wikis and start test case creation

Automation & Tools

Android Test Framework status: Going to be landing a number of these today:

• bug 567945 - should re-land today now that bear and I figured out the pathing issue
• bug 573281 - updates for device manager
• bug 573282 - Agent crashes when installing fennec (Bmoss can't seem to reproduce, checking to see if I had a bad build of fennec).
• bug 573478 - RemoteReftests should start httpd.js.
• bug 573263 - Refactoring to get reftests working, making reftest and mochitest match w.r.t. call signature and option names etc.
• bug 573964 - Reftests must write to a log file on android (we don't have access to stdout).

e10s:

• bug 567417 - e10s + mochitest
  • resolving 1 leak and incorporating all review feedback

browser-chrome tests:

• bug 571865 - preferences on/off
  • up for review

Other

• Fennec 2.0 a1 blockers?
• jchen?