B2G/Meeting/2016-08-02

B2G Weekly Meeting

• Date: 2016-08-02
• Host: Ben Francis
• Notes copied to the wiki each week B2G/Meeting
• Meeting time: Tuesday, 9am Pacific / 4pm UTC

Attendees:

• Jovan
• Lapineige
• Jamie
• Ben Francis
• kskarthik

Announcements

Status Updates

• Merging of pine and kanikani done ! https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/merging-status/9978/

Code Transition

Jovan: Getting the Clock app ready - waiting on review from Ben moving the camera app to apps/

• biggest problem seems to be localStorage. LocalStorage is not available under chrome://. Right now I'm working with asyncStorage, any suggestions?
• Ask the platform team if there is a reason for no localStorage

fixing the home button - can't see it and problems with orientation locking

Porting

• Novski still working on Fairphone 2 - trying to build with the new merged system

Infrastructure

Documentation

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/B2G_OS text refined (a bit) + link to B2G installer doc
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/B2G_OS/Building_and_installing_B2G_OS/Compatible_Devices updated with Wileyfox Swift info + link to B2G Installer doc
• Updated build instructions docs after the merge
• B2G OS main Italian translation page bug fixed & contributors started translating

Governance

• Already ~3 months - time for a council meeting ?
• Interesting link: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/governance-working-group/8177/69 (bootstrapping a bossless organisation in 3 easy steps) about governance and bossless organizations

Communications

QA

Can either fix marionette or create a new testing harness

• 2-4 months to fix marionette
• longer to implement a new testing harness
• Gabby willing to help, but need a way to flash Flame and Aries devices from Windows
• ping auswerk for advice on test harness?
• ping gerard-majax for advice on getting flashing addon to work in Windows?
• ping gerard-majax about base build?
• (jamie_)

charja13 and gaby2300 working on this subject. Topic on discourse : https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/b2g-qa-information/9661/

• quote: All tests working on Marionette > none of the tests setups will work unless we fix marionette as both mochitests and xpcshell depend on marionette to run.
• Request to devs: please write your code with tests in mind ;)

Smartphone

Smart TV

Tablet

• Market research - COMPLETE
• Prototype - COMPLETE
• Survey - COMPLETE (749 responses)
• User interviews - COMPLETE (7 participants)
• Results will be presented to the Product Innovation Board tomorrow (3rd August)

Round Table

Jamie is working on the camera app - going to try and build as web app using WebRTC

• sixviz is also working on the camera app (https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/camera-app/9723/ )
• http://mozilla-b2g.github.io/gaia/dead_apps/camera/

Anyone tried building from http://github.com/cm-b2g ?