Gaia/Team/Taipei/Meetings/2013-10-15

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Public meeting note of Oct 15th, 2013

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NOTE
Nothing is committed until it lands in a release :) .

These are the features mainly driven by the Taipei teams, in co-optations with other teams in Taipei and around the world. We are not meant to take all the credit :)

Cursor management / Selection / Copy-paste

Enabling user to move caret and select text easily, optionally enable copy and paste.

  • User stories: SystemPlatform 25/26 (must have), SystemPlaftorm 27 (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
    • bug 921965 - [Keyboard][User Story] Text Selection
    • bug 921964 - [Keyboard][User Story] Cursor movement
  • Meta bug(s): bug 924419 - Support text selection in Firefox OS
  • Devs: Rudy, Jan(?), SC Chien
  • UX: Carrie
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-14):
    • Had a discussion with Ehsan on the architecture and the UX issues that we should clarify first.
    • Most UI (including easy handle for cursor) will happen in Gecko, while customizable from Gaia. This is because if we do the UI in Gaia, it may have UI unsync issue when you scroll the page with the cursor.
    • We might have the UX spec in a day or two, and will follow up to discuss with Ehsan/SC to create the engineering bugs.
    • UX Design to Clarify:
      1. Whether we need customized UI style for the cursor easy handle. (Probably yes, has talked about this with Mike and Carrie.)
      2. The position of the tool menu for copy/paste/delete should be fixed or floated with the cursor? - (Should be fixed at the top of the screen per current UX decision)

New Camera App features, Gaia part

Enable users to config photo size, better viewfinder, etc.

  • User stories: Device 1/2 (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Gary
  • UX: Rob
  • Status (updated: 2013/10/15): Confirmed with Joe Cheng, this feature change to 'nice-to-have' and wait UX input.

Dual SIM Dual Standby (Settings and minimal UI)

Enable minimal usability of DSDS feature on device (Settings app and some icons on status bar, lock screen, etc.). Not productization ready for v1.3.

  • User stories: DSDS1/2/3/4/5 (must have)
  • User story bugs:
    • bug 918533 - [B2G][DSDS][User Story] Settings necessary for DSDS feature
    • bug 926347 - [B2G][User Story] [DSDS] Selection of the SIMs during FTE
    • bug 926350 - [B2G][User Story] [DSDS] Call configurations
    • bug 926352 - [B2G][User Story] [DSDS] Network selection
    • bug 926355 - [B2G][User Story] [DSDS] CLIR - Caller Line Identification Restriction
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Arthur, EJ
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-15): UX spec was released on 10/14. Evaluating the spec and creating corresponding bugs.

Near Field Communication (System app & Settings app work)

Enable FxOS devices to use NFC.

Settings switches

Adding toggles to Settings app for EAP-SIM, MTP, format SD card, and other must-have items from other platform teams in Taipei

  • User stories: WLAN1/2/3 (must-have), Device4/5 (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Arthur, EJ, Ian
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-15)
    • EAP-SIM: UX spec is not available. Will have a meeting today (10/15) discussing on the UX design.
    • MTP: UX spec is not available. System app involved.
    • format SD card: UX spec is not available.

Tablet (v1.3)

Continue to improve tablet experience of FxOS since v1.2. Instead of polishing all apps, make several apps with full tablet experience.

  • User stories: N/A, expect some must-have items.
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s): Bug 903304
  • Devs: Fred, George, Tzu-Lin
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-15):
    • UX will release new spec for gallery/video/music/settings and new building block for tablet before the end of Oct
    • QA start flatfishRun1 and files bugs, most of them are under investigating
    • Landed last week:
      • 922462 Define various size of icons in manifest instead of use buildscript
      • 921404 lockscreen clock is too small
      • 911668 change orientation to default (Gecko)
    • In review:
      • 911681 replace FTU tutorial images
      • 920445 remove search bar from homescreen
    • Working:
      • 918272 [Flatfish][System] Add animation for home gesture
      • 911668 change build-in apps orientation to default
    • Need Gecko support:
      • 920551 (gecko) able to disable all RIL functions in build time

CDMA commercialization (v1.3)

Expect to fix some bugs on CDMA during v1.3 cycle.

  • User stories: N/A, expect some +'ing items.
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Arthur
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-15): CDMA blockers

3rd-party keyboard framework follow-up

Expect to fix some follow-up bugs on 3rd-party keyboard framework, a bug feature we rolled during v1.2.

  • User stories: N/A, expect some +'ing items.
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Rudy, Gary
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-15):
    • Bug 917048: The keyboard doesn't show up when trying to enter characters into compose message field -- GaryChen
      if app (iframe) is new and opened, the element.focus() will lost .

Zhuyin IME

Enable users in Taiwan to type Traditional Chinese.

  • User stories: SystemPlatform 29 (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s): N/A
  • Downstream repo: https://github.com/timdream/jszhuyin
  • Devs: Tim, Rudy
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-14):
    • Bug 908577 (upstream the 2017-JUL version) is being reviewed, inc. the glue code to keyboard app.
    • Working on a version of the IME without relying on IndexedDB in the downstream repo right now.

Settings Engineering

Engineering item. Refactoring part of the Settings app and write more tests. Resolve state control issue with some Gecko APIs.

  • User stories: SystemPlatform 30 (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Arthur, Tzu-Lin, Gecko dev #3
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-15):
    • Had a discussion with Tzu-lin on the unit testing part. Will focus on separating common logic from settings.js and writing unit tests for it.
    • There is a request of supporting inline activity in settings app. This blocks a 1.3 feature. (Bug 924409)

Window management upgrade

Engineering item. Hardening window management in System app to enable future needs. Loosely related to Haida.

  • User stories: SystemPlatform 31 (nice-to-have), may have some +'d item for Haida.
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902766
  • Devs: Alive, Greg
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-14):
    • Orientation Management refine in bug 908601 is under review.
    • Transition control in bug 907013: WIP but it's big and buggy. Will split into different bugs.
    • Activity Management in bug 911053: WIP

IME API w/ hardware keyboard

Enable hardware keyboard (regardless of connectivity) to work with Keyboard applications. See also to Bluetooth Keyboard.

  • User stories: SystemPlatform ?? (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Luke, Ben Tian
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-15):
    • Discussing hardware keyboard API from Tim (Wiki)
    • Practicing how to add DOM APIs

Hardware button events for apps

Enable applications to access and consume hardware buttons on the phone.

Bluetooth inline pairing, file queue

Continue to improve bluetooth features (inline pairing, file queue) since v1.2.

  • User stories: BTP13/15 (nice to have)
  • User story bugs: ?
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Ian, Arthur
  • Status (update at 2013-10-15): File queue: UX spec is not available.

Bluetooth keyboard

Allow user to connect and use Bluetooth keyboard to device. See also IME API w/ hardware keyboard.

  • User stories: BTP16/17 (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s):
  • Devs: Ian, Arthur, Luke
  • Status (updated: 2013-10-15): On halt. Not a 1.3 feature.

Build script improvement

Enable developers to build Gaia with a Firefox add-on; make build script testable and modularized.

  • User stories: SystemPlatform20/21 (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s): bug 922543
  • Devs: Yuren, Tzu-Lin, John Hu
  • Status (updated: 2013/10/15):
Bug 921417 - rewrite build/variant.py in javascript 
John had a WIP commit for this, we are figuring out how to use download module in firefox extension
Bug 922463 - rewrite build/multilocale.py in javascript 
Yuren had a WIP commit, we try to integrate multilocale process into webapps-zip for localization without changing gaia source tree.
Bug 922540 - rewrite build/additional-extensions.py in javascript 
tzhuang is studying this.

Engineering mode / Hardware showcase app

Present a test app to show capability of the OS (and it's APIs), and evaluate the OS for readiness of hosting such app.

  • User stories: SystemPlatform 28 (nice-to-have)
  • User story bugs:
  • Meta bug(s): bug 883714
  • Devs: Tom, Fred
  • Status (updated: 2013/10/15):

Screenshot comparison tool for integration tests

Taking screenshots during integration tests to confirm visual changes, like, BBC wraith.

ext. functional team update: comms

  • V1.2 stabilizing:
    • koi? triage
    • Keep fixing koi blocker issue.
  • v1.3 Sprint1 and Sprint2 user story in Taipei:
    • Message app:
      • Delivery report: Need final UX confrim(Sprint3)
      • Read report: Need final UX confrim(Sprint3) and api confirm(Sprint4)
    • DSDS(Dual Sim Dual Standby): TBD, wait for UX final spec.
  • Increase unit-test coverage (r+ for unit-test added patches only)

ext. functional team update: productivity

  • Fix koi+ bugs
    • Grouped notifications should not show email address when only one email account is configured.
    • Notifications UI does not differentiate clearly between emails received in multiple email accounts configured
  • New marionette plugin for debugging. Currently working on screenshot functions.
    • Reviewing and updating the client side patch.