Gaia/Meeting/2014-04-29
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Weekly Gaia Development Meeting
- Date: 2014-04-29
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/gaia-meeting-notes
- Meeting connection details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G#Meetings
- Host: Hub
- Minutes copied to the wiki each week https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Meeting_Notes
Contents
Announcements & Notices
- if you want to start a program with your alma mater, let Dietrich know: http://autonome.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/firefox-os-and-academic-programs/
QA
reporter: Jason
- 1.3
- 1.3T
- Smoketest: 46 out of 48 tests passed for the 2014-04-28 Tarako v1.3t Build. There is one new issue that kept the smoketests from fully passing yesterday:
- [B2G][Tarako] User is unable to recieve Email notification unless the Email App is open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1002655
- Tarako] Please add the variable "GAIA_MEMORY_PROFILE=low" to the build script for all Tarako builds https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000448 NOTE: full builds appear to use the camera.json file from the spreadtrum tree, but gecko/gaia builds still need GAIA_MEMORY_PROFILE=low set.
- Final verification/exploratory testing going on on Tarako
- 1.4
- Open-C Run 1.4-3: 697 passed, 15 failed, 0 blocked, 25 invalid / 4451 cases total. Coverage is at 17% (QAnalysts)
- 1.4 still has issues with Camera that are under investigation. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000567
- 2.0
- Flames are in. consult your manager!
- Some smoketest regressions yesterday that involved importing functions. Should be fixed in the build today.
- Gaia UI Automation
- 2.0
- 37/41 smoketests
- 75/79 non-smoketests
- Main issues:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987760 - Various wifi failures failure
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987809 - Shift key is still enabled after we tap the first letter in message box
- 1.4
- 37/39 smoketests
- 77/82 non-smoketests
- Main issues:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987760 - Various wifi failures failure
Support
No updates
TEAM UPDATES
Productivity
Talking this week: Candice Sprint tracking wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/productivity Notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-productivity The Team: asuth, evanxd, gaye, lightsofapollo, doliver, jrburke, mcav, millermedeiros, jhford, cserran, tony (qa), william hsu (qa), jhuang (ux), harly (ux)
- 2.0 development in progress
- Visual refresh for clock - done
- Visual refresh for calendar and email in progress
- Email outbox/async sending in progress this sprint
- 1.3T+ bugs for email - high priority
- Landing remaining 1.4+ email bugs this week
Media front end
Talking this week: no updates
- Our team: Dave Hylands, David Flanagan, Mike Habicher, Jim Porter, Hema Koka, Dominic Kuo, John Hu, Diego Marcos, Wilson Page, Justin D'Arcangelo , Punam Dahiya (part-time), Russ Nicoletti (part-time) Product: Sri Kasetti Ux: Rob MacDonald, Patryk Adamczyk EPM: Candice Serran QA: Marcia Knous
Performance
Talking this week: Eli
- TEAM: bkelly, eli, geo, hub, huseby, jhylands, jld, kgrandon, mchang, mlee, wlach, Walter Chen
Sites
Updates:
- Information on UI Synchronicity now up on MDN via Eli Perelman: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Performance/UI_Synchronicity
- Covers Async UI, Sync UI, and Async First approaches
- Eli will start issuing patches and creating bugs for applications in order to improve responsiveness using these UX techniques
- Huseby/Eli working on proposal to use docker to ease B2G (and gaia) building/bisecting/debugging/profiling for everybody.
- Bug 972075 is likely to land this week.
- It adds markers to profiles for key windowing events like "load end", "first paint", etc.
- screenshot: https://bug972075.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8414531
- Building up Flame battery harnesses for QA/Automation
Comms app
No updates
System front end
Talking this week: Ted
- Sprint tracking wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/systemsfe
- Daily standups: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-systems-frontend1-4
- The team: cserran, gwagner, qdot, michael h, aus, sam joch, alexandre, francis, jason, pdol, benfrancis, daleharvey, gmarty, sfoster, naoki, john, tef, tedders1
Updates:
- Did some feature work on Rocketbar. (Changes to how links are displayed. Opening browser opens Mozilla.org)
- Homescreen changes in response to user feedback. Also landed tests homescreen.
- Sprint 1 for 2.0 development in progress
- Usability study for homescreen, task manager, sheets, and rocketbar/system browser in progress this week
- NFC dependency bugs for browser in progress this sprint
- Datastore work for webrtc also in progress this sprint
OPTIONAL UPDATES
No updates
Round Table
None