Apps/StatusMeetings/Engineering/2012-11-07

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Agenda

P1 Firefox OS Basecamp

  • Significant Updates
    • phased release for FFOS Payments (Caitlin)
  • Checkin/Status on Major Challenges
  • Questions and Concerns
  • Feedback Triage

P2/3 Other Projects

  • Significant Updates
    • Android Payments & Packaged Apps (Wil - can you provide?)
  • Checkin/Status on Major Challenges
  • Questions and Concerns

Minutes

Attendees

  • kward
  • pmpcat
  • jedp
  • sruston
  • clouserw
  • bwalker
  • myk
  • telliott

Firefox OS Payments

  • folks calling out risks to original timeline
  • significant risks on the payment timeline
  • original dogfooding window from December 15 - January 15
  • dogfooding being moved out
  • go-live date remains January 15
  • Bango cautions against going live in five countries simultaneously
  • so we'll go live in one country at a time, starting in Brazil
  • Steve Ruston (Rusty?) is new [Project Manager for payments?]
  • we're not going to chase around tef's go-live date
  • technical deliveries must remain on our schedule (although delivered by tef's date)

Identity

  • patch landed in Central yesterday
  • a bit of a hiccup, patches must be adjusted and relanded to conform to new "compartment-per-global" architectural change in firefox/b2g
  • should be fixed today
  • kids love B2G!

Apps Architecture Brownbag

  • bwalker will do brown bag on apps architecture on Thursday, November 15 at noon PT

Content Program

  • New dates for Pre-load apps are now in the works (being confirmed with Platform team)
  • What are pre-load apps? Pre load apps are those that are on left swipe on screen 2 and 3 that the end user will see when the phone comes out of the box.
  • kward will follow up with clouserw to ensure definitions/terms are well understood and consistently used
  • Timeline:
    • 2012 Nov 15 – All Pre-load Apps Identified for all TEF markets
    • Nov 30 – All Pre-load Apps Submitted to Marketplace
    • Nov 30 to Dec 10 – Apps Review of submitted apps
    • Dec 10 to Jan 15 – QA and Porting Review of submitted apps
    • 2013 January 15 – Code freeze and ship to OEM

Server Signing

  • rtilder will deliver server signing for packaged apps by next week
  • there are some quirks in the spec

Android Payments

  • folks met with Android team on payments
  • solution should be fairly easy
  • Marketplace team will provide code
  • Android team will provide QA resources
  • November 19 string freeze impacts schedule
  • open question about Android shim for other browsers
  • various folks have responded, including rforbes on security
  • -> clouserw to file bug to implement Marketplace payments shim for other browsers on Android

Android Packaged Apps

  • team estimating work
  • hoping to fit it into Firefox 19
  • would mean beta on January 8
  • ship in February to general audience

Marketplace Localization

  • Marketplace kicks butt with localization!

App Reviews

  • adora's talk on app reviews kicks butt!

Actions

  • clouserw to file bug to implement Marketplace payments shim for other browsers on Android
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