Gaia/Meeting/2012-03-27

• Welcome James Lal to the Gaia team.

• M2.5 release wraps up today -- thanks to everyone for the hard work the last few days!
• RC3 for M2.5 tagged this morning ~7AM, and QA is verifying fixes for the key blockers
  • Status to be updated after Gaia meeting
• Team will begin planning for M3 Alpha milestone targeting 6/1

I think it would be helpful for everyone to list the current status of their dev environment: do you have a working phone? What model? Do you have a working b2g-desktop? If so, are you using offline cache or a local web server? Are you on mac or linux? Sure, this is a good idea. Blocker issues:

• Gaia #1020 is still being worked on
• Gaia Updater looks to be broken (Fabrice may have a fix)
• For SGS2, the lock screen isn't unlockable -- here is a workaround (thx kanru!)

   adb push glue/gonk/device/samsung/galaxys2/idc /system/usr/idc

• MozSettings has regressed -- data is stored and it requires a reboot for the change to go into effect
  • Vivien will file a bug and already has a patch to fix it

Other change:

• Remove the Gallay link from the Camera App (need to file an issue, Ben can make the change)

• benfrancis
  • Working on browser requirements for M3 with UX & discussing future of browser API
  • Helping with mozapps effort & bugfixing
  • Next: More bugfixes, improving the Gaia wiki?
• mdas
  • marionette server code and the marionette client code have both landed in m-c. We're going to be working on a simple 'make marionette' command that will run through your tests using marionette.
  • Will also update documentation with tutorials on how to use marionette and how to write/structure your tests. Current documentation proves to be a bit confusing and incomplete
• djf
  • Current dev environment status:
    • phone: Galaxy S2: not working. I can build, but its not responding to touch events, so I can't unlock the home screen
    • b2g-desktop: Mac: offline cache does not work and never has. I can kind of use a local web server environment, but the b2g http cache interferes and I haven't figured out how to clear the cache except by blowing away my entire profile. So doing any gaia development or testing is slow and painful
  • On Friday I performed the world's first web app installation onto B2G!
  • Since then, nothing has worked, so I've basically stopped being a Gaia/JS developer and have become a makefile and shell script debugger
  • Blockers:
    • I still don't have a sim card, so even if my phone was working, I wouldn't be able to test anything having to do with SMS or Dialer
    • To use b2g desktop productively, I need the offlinecache to work on the Mac, or an easy way to clear the HTTP cache so that I can edit an app and try it out without deleting and recreating a profile
• justindarc
• etienne
  • (not landed) work on desktop-notifications
  • Bugfixes for the dialer/contacts
  • Polishing for the 2.5 milestone
  • A bit of initial groundwork for the flexible UI stuffs
• kazé
  • l10n library okay, homescreen now properly localized but other apps only appear in English because of the Settings regression
  • l10n repository on github: https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/gaia-l10n
  • wifi should be okay (+ signal-level notification in the homescreen) but there are still a few rough edges to polish w/ mrbkap
• UX (Josh, Patryk, Casey)
  • Wrapped up Toronto week
  • Going to Paris April 1—14
  • Working towards May 1 delivery of as much Interaction Design as possible, and Visual Design base.
  • After May 1, we will focus on tweaks to Interaction Design, and finalize Visual Design.
  • Gaia version sync: Very important: we need to get UX synced with Devs. Same Gaia builds on both sides. Preferably on phone, but in-browser also possible. Very important for coordination. Devs update, UX provides feedback, etc.
  • Weekly UX Meeting: Wednesday, first one tomorrow, of weekly series. Goal tomorrow is to meet w/ team stakeholders and confirm (for M3) requirements, resources, timeline/process, expectations, communications.
  • UI Library discussion
  • Discuss UX and Dev communication strategy - solicitation for ideas
  • Flexible UI discussion, Initial Feature Spec Compiled
  • Firefox: design process started (UX: Patryk, Ian, Lariss, Dev: Ben, Eng: Justin Lebar).
  • Music App: Patryk working on, Initial Feature Spec Compiled
  • Notifications: Initial Feature Spec Compiled
  • Wiki:
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia#UX
    • Populating these links w/ requirements
• Pavel
  • Will begin on the flexible UI prototypes
• QA (John, Geo)
  • Taking candidate builds as they come and qualifying for M2.5 release
  • Because issue system doesn't allow for this particular filtering, the more info we can get about what specifically has been fixed in each candidate, the better.
  • need dev support on testing gaia updater work when that lands. (working with fabrice)
• Product (clee)
  • Product backlog list for Gaia v1 has been proposed -- working with partners to finalize this list
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Schedule_Roadmap#Product_Backlog
  • Detailed requirements/use cases to be defined this coming week of v1 core apps
• fzzzy (donovan)
  • Got linux box set up, compiling, flashing phone, all good
  • Got ArrayBuffer support in TCPSocket working
  • Discussed with James and Vivien the plan for easing development environment and testing setup
  • Talked to asuth about TCPSocket
• harry
• timdream
• lightsofapollo (James Lal)
  • Started 3/26 based out of mv
  • Working on building gonk & flashing my phone
  • Will be working on Gaia - Looking into email and marketplace apps
  • (And fixing my Mic )
• Nairsaab
  • I wish to join project