WebAPI/2012-08-07

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WebAPI Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2012-08-07 - 10:00 am Pacific
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  • WebAPI Vidyo Room / SF-Golden Gate (3rd floor) / Toronto-Spadina
  • Join irc.mozilla.org #webapi for back channel

Notes will be taken on etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes

Agenda

  • Jonas
    • getting more on track on updates
    • packaged app stuff and security model stuff
    • documenting stuff -> wiki, will send/post here link
  • Jan

- will attach initial patch for temporary storage this week - looking for review: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763854 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780625

  • Bonnie

- Decoder first review comments available - Currently working on the Encoder. Close to being done. - Will focus on decoder review comments once done.

  • Mounir
    • vacation last week
    • lots of reviews since getting back
    • moving!
  • Andrea
  • Ben
    • last week cleaning up blob stuff for sandboxing (no file IO in child processes)
    • lots of reviews coming up
    • working on getting rid of intermittent oranges
  • Doug
    • Device Storage
      • IPC blob remoting (bug 773798. review needed. Hi Bent)
      • Remoting Volume Manager (bug 780693. review needed. Hi Bent)
      • Device Manager Stat (bug 777088. changes required. ETA end of week).
      • Debugging Volume manager flakiness on otoro device
    • Sandboxing Web APIs
      • Need to fix the permission manager so that accepts application ID in addition to the URI of the principal. We believe that Mounir has a patch for this. Jonas can review.
      • Each IPDL method needs to be audited. We want to know what permission is required in order to run each method. The second part after the audit is enforcement. We want to ensure that the child process has the permission required to call the method. (olli)
      • Every api needs to use the nsIContentPermission prompt. We need each API owner to be factor their code to support this prompting service. See this google doc which tracks the progress (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akyz_Bqjgf5pdENVekxYRjBTX0dCXzItMnRyUU1RQ0E#gid=0).
  • Paul
    • Last week!
    • Still working on review
  • Malini Rob
    • learning about WebAPI tests
  • Geo
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/QA/WebAPI_Test_Plan#API_Sub-Plan_List
    • Contacts API underway
    • David C. buttoning up round 1 of Device Storage
    • Changes submitted to ease running Mochitest on device
    • Discussion w/ Lucas raised security/permissions testing concerns, exploring now
    • Metrics requested re: coverage, exploring methodologies
    • Working on a test cycle plan to do quick API verification via on-device exercise
  • Kyle M.
    • Vacation last week
    • Bluetooth Implementation moving slowly
    • Blocking calls waiting on review (Bug 768306)
    • Security Review done
    • Bonding pieces in progress, mostly being refined now
    • Socket pieces in progress
    • Still need to do e10s, testing framework
  • Gregor
    • contacts using permissionmanager
    • patch for prompting (doug is reviewing)
    • api update might come up with carrier field
    • settings next
    • problem that all apps are using settingsAPI for language change event
  • Round table / open discussion