Apps/StatusMeetings/Engineering/2012-12-12
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- Time: 9:05 - 9:55 AM PT (17:05 - 17:55 UTC)
- Backchannel:
- Virtual Location:
- Physical Locations:
- Mountain View: 3Z - Zombocom
- San Francisco: 324 - Bay Bridge
- Audio-only Access:
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- +1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf#: 98652 (US toll free)
- etherpad for taking minutes
Agenda
P1 Firefox OS Basecamp
- Significant Updates
- Warning: Design bugs coming on:
- Identity legacy site support
- Single source of truth of mini-manifest vs. webapp manifest
- entry points app manifest - risk vs. support?
- Packaged Apps : Managing regional builds (including preloads)
- Warning: Design bugs coming on:
- Questions and Concerns
- Hard dependencies for packaged apps for marketplace --> client isn't a confirmed understanding
- Red flag called on packaged apps testing in platform meeting due to marketplace + client dependencies called out
- Feedback Triage
- Triaging of Marketplace bugs which are nominated as basecamp blockers
P2/3 Other Projects
- Significant Updates
- Questions and Concerns
- Can the rule about not supported prefixed APIs on a release channel impact the usefulness of privileged apps on Android?
Minutes
Design Issues in B2G leading to potential descope / deprioritization
- Identity
- App Manifest property "entry points"
- single source of truth (mini-manifest vs. packaged app manifest)
- need to email the relevant mailing list or associated people with list of bugs or thread displaying problems
- can also have a meeting - Jason to target resources and teams - Caitlin can help facilitate
Packaged Apps: (Preloads per region)
- Will not be branching code as previously expected
- Tool will be built (Donovan) to help regional operators select the preinstalls they want
- Need to identify the other regional customizations
- pre-loaded Apps
- regional settings - default region, time, formats
- carrier specific settings
End-to-End User Stories
- Jason needs whole pacakged and signing system to work to test against
- let's land the user stories we can land as code complete
- Integration bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=pack-app-integration
- Signing - unblocked with desktop build so Brian can test his patch
- Hosting Zip File: are there canonical places to host each version (single url to download)?
- URL to zip files are versioned
- mini-manifest always points to latest version's zip file
- Implement way for reviewers to test app upgrade process: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=817196
Security Updates: Packaged Apps
- Patch will be done - security review on Friday for client side
- security review planned for 3rd Party Preinstalled apps
- Infrastructure / Ops security review (talk to Toby)
Concern that we are not triaging bugs in Marketplace
- jsmith to schedule triage with clouserw, krupa
Actions
- clouserw to get Rob to send specification for URL to Donovan
- https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/<uuid>/manifest.webapp
- Caitlin to schedule meeting on packaged apps versioning and updating (Fabrice, Donovan, Jason, Wil, Rob,... )
- Caitlin to schedule same / 2nd meeting to discuss how to review packaged app updates (Lisa B, Jonas)