Mobile/Notes/23-Sep-2009

Details

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Schedule

• We are code frozen for beta 4. mobile-browser tree to reopen in a few days
• We are string frozen.

Major Topics for This Week

Application

General Front-end

• Landed the N900/N810 DPI fix (platform and CSS)
  • Breaks the desktop theme
  • More UI polish tweaks will be needed
  • Regressions!
• Do we have all the b4 patches landed?
• Task buttons on N900/N810 landed
• Search providers are displayed in the Add-on Manager
• Locale auto-detection and switching
• Lots of bug fixes landed

UX design

Query for polish bugs: http://bit.ly/fennec-polish (put [polish] in whiteboard to add to the list)

Summary:

• 23 bugs marked as polish
  • 11 blocking 1.0
  • 11 nominated
  • 1 marked wanted
• Of the total 23,
  • 20 have design fix (or direction) proposed
  • 3 are being worked on (by madhava)
• About 3-5 others from polish sweep identified but without bugs yet.
• there will be a set of new ones resulting from the DPI fix

• Fennec UI guide for add-ons authors: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Extensions/UserInterface

• working on fennec Weave UI with weave team

Platform Support

Maemo

Windows Mobile

• 22 beta 1 blockers http://bit.ly/blocking-wmb1
• 39 blockers for final release http://bit.ly/blocking-wm
• we made the decision to live with the sip and a menubar when the keyboard is up
  • should figure out something intelligent to do with the menubar's space

General Back-end

Geolocation support

Video

Camera

• still no reviews from doublec

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Builds

• sd card rollout
• tp4, graph server
• winmo talos discussions
• upload xpis... deb status? all-locale status?

QA

• Figuring out infrastructure for WinMo automation (talos + unittests)
• Keeping on top of verifying resolved bugs
• Continued testing of 1.9.2/trunk for winmo/maemo
• Noticing a lot of low memory conditions on the n810 and omnia 2 lately and haven't been able to pinpoint the reason
• Will build up a list of blocker bugs for b4 by the end of today
• Fennec 1.0 Beta Testday on Oct 2nd

Other

• start marking bugs as student-project
  • Humph says there's lots of interested in mobile oriented projects and Seneca and elsewhere