Apps/StatusMeetings/Engineering/2012-10-17

Details

• Time: 9:05 - 9:55 AM PT (16:05 - 16:55 UTC)
• Backchannel:
  • irc.mozilla.org #openwebapps
• Virtual Location:
  • "Mozilla Apps" Vidyo room
• Physical Locations:
  • Mountain View: 3A - All Your Base
  • San Francisco: 324 - Bay Bridge
• Audio-only Access:
  • +1-650-903-0800 or +1-650-215-1282, x92, conf#: 98652 (US/INTL)
  • +1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf#: 98652 (US toll free)
• etherpad for taking minutes

Agenda

P1 Firefox OS Basecamp

• Significant Updates
• Checkin/Status on Major Challenges
  • Payments & ID (Caitlin)
  • HA Infrastructure (Caitlin rep if Mark/Toby not on call)
  • 3rd party apps & permissions UI for sensitive APIs
• Questions and Concerns

P2/3 Other Projects

• Significant Updates
  • Android Go / No-Go
• Checkin/Status on Major Challenges
• Questions and Concerns

Minutes

Identity

• on track to hit milestone 3 by the deadline this Friday
• https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-implementation-plan
• on track to complete work due by October 28

Permission UI Events

• permission UI events for apps is a feature blocker still remaining
• ddahl has new patch up for review by sicking
  • bug 773114

Payments Agreement

• payments agreement with vendor is not a blocker for identity
• could be a blocker for marketplace
• right now marketplace is writing code assuming the agreement
• agreement is rfant's top priority

Payments & Identity

• kumar working on end-to-end demo of payments and identity
• blocked on some navigator.pay() stuff that he's working on fixing
• we're also blocked on some "custom dev work" for which Bango's engineers are responsible
• that work was supposed to be done either last Friday or this Friday

• -> kward to find out and share status of Bango "custom dev work"

Payments/Identity UX Flux

• payments and identity is in UX flux
• so QA can only do minimal testing

• -> clouserw to find out expected stabilization date for Payments/Identity UX and share with jsmith

New Install/Update UX Flows

• for packaged apps
• when will these land in Gaia for B2G testing?
• October 26

London Workshop on Content

• Mozilla reps meeting with Telefonica reps next week
• grid identifying apps that are preloaded on device is still in flux
• hope to solidify grid next week
• and establish deadlines for when apps must be ready

• preloaded apps are Basecamp's biggest dependency on Content Program

Testing of Preloaded Apps

• confusion about who owns testing of preloaded apps
• kward working with rpiovesan on content plan
• Bob (Moss?) and Dolores (?) responsible for test plan

• in general, testing of preloaded apps happens before lab certification

• -> kward to share draft plan for preloaded apps

Android Go/No-Go

• we decided to GO!
• go date/time is tomorrow, Thursday, October 18 2pm PDT

• Fennec Aurora will feature links/ads for Firefox Marketplace
• Firefox Marketplace login wall will be removed
• 34 apps have passed tests for Android
• a few more apps in the pipeline, hope to make it by tomorrow
• elancaster is coordinating release

Partner Page

• http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/apps/partners/ out of date
• https://marketplace.mozilla.org/developers/ is the new resource
• new version of page is at https://marketplace-dev.allizom.org/developers/
• new version will be live tomorrow
• marketing materials should point to new resource

• -> kward to inform Marketing about new Partners Page

Actions

• kward to find out and share status of Bango "custom dev work"
• clouserw to find out expected stabilization date for Payments/Identity UX and share with jsmith
• kward to inform Marketing about new Partners Page