Apps/StatusMeetings/Engineering/2012-11-21

Details

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Agenda

P1 Firefox OS Basecamp

• Significant Updates
• Questions and Concerns
  • Privileged Apps remain theoretical
  • Karen's notion of a "plain" packaged App as an alternative to appcache
• Feedback Triage

P2/3 Other Projects

• Significant Updates
• Questions and Concerns

Minutes

Telefonica Release

• milestone this Friday, November 23
• feature complete? unclear what it represents

Preinstalled Apps

• kward has deliveries for preinstalled apps
• we need to coordinate with B2G/Gaia teams
• kward managing that conversation across all companies

Payments

• we need to make sure we complete payments work
• most of that is not happening on client
• document provided by rfant has raised our concerns
• appears to be the case that we have new agreement with Deutsche Telekom
• pmpcat will reach out to identify commitments with DT

• Deutshe Telecom code complete/code drop December 21
• -> pmpcat to loop dbialer and kward into meetings on DT

Signing

• some runtime components are not yet done
• like signing and updating of privileged apps
• bsmith is working on signing; getting really close
• still some differences between client and server code

• whole team is meeting daily to triage
• -> pmpcat to make sure jsmith is in the loop on work being done to complete signing of apps

• server team has complete signing chain for signing app and client verifying signed app
• one missing piece was identified; team is scrambling to complete it

privileged apps

• Please review Karen's DRAFT document on Content Types ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/StatusMeetings/ContentProgram/Content_Types_for_Dummies ). I am eager for your feedback and corrections.
• preloaded -> preinstalled term change (more accurate term)
• there will be some preinstalled apps, including certified, privileged, and hosted apps
• preinstallation doesn't impact how apps get updated

• current model is that non-certified apps can get removed by user
• but there are preinstalled non-certified apps that we don't want to be removeable
• privileged apps that can't be uninstalled is not part of the current model
• so we probably need to make those apps be certified
• as the bar for new functionality right now is extremely high

• unclear that Mozilla will be shipping updates directly to anyone
• OEMs and carriers will be on the hook for shipping updates
• which means it'll be their responsibility to update preinstalled apps
• if those preinstalled apps are certified so as not to be removeable

• kward working with TEF on certified apps and their locations on the grid
• we have to do some QA work before we hand off to TEF

v1.1

• the initial timeline for v1.1 was just created
• DT release
• more information will be available next week

packaged apps on Android

• bugs filed, there is activity
• signing process is the same as it is for Firefox OS

Desktop

• mushi has been working on a new desktop design
• mhanratty has been working on a UX flow for Send to Phone from desktop
• rfant has decided to re-enable installation of apps on desktop

Actions

• pmpcat to loop dbialer and kward into meetings on DT
• pmpcat to make sure jsmith is in the loop on work being done to complete signing of apps