B2G/Meeting/2016-05-17

B2G Weekly Meeting

• Date: 2016-05-17
• Host: Ben Francis
• Notes copied to the wiki each week B2G/Meeting
• Meeting time: Tuesday, 9am Pacific

Announcements

B2G Transition monthly meeting on Thursday
https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/third-b2g-os-transition-meeting-2016-05-19/8644

Status Updates

• (nhirata) Current MC/MI Build blocker : bug 1270879
• (nhirata) We need to transition l10n : https://blog.mozilla.org/axel/2013/09/19/a-tale-of-convert-and-convert/
• https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/b2g-os-transition-volunteer-contribution-status-week-19/8634/5

[alberto]

• Working on getting the homescreen working with preinstalled webapps
• Working on getting the clock app working from a remote url as an experiment

[gsvelto]

• More fixes for AudioChannel-related code on pine bug 1272270
• Trying to get the crashreporter to build correctly bug 1270879

Code Transition

• Two weeks to go!
• Homescreen should now be mostly working, need a way to populate default pinned sites -> working on it bug 1272331
• Biggest pieces remaining are getting the dialer working and removing the rest of the Apps API?
• See a list of the smartphone apps which need transitioning to web apps http://benfrancis.github.io/gaia/
• Help needed to write Getting Started presentation for mentoring https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YuQaLr-hiduT5xyT4TaiaUDYOsZAnmadduevAE6MOKo/edit?usp=sharing

Porting

Build for Fairphone 2 seems to be almost ready. what still needs to be done?

• build issue
• https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/fairphone-2-build/8641/

B2G installer add-on will be signed ASAP

• bug 1265385

Meeting in London: Porting B2G: Where to next

• Wednesday June 15, 2016 13:00 - 14:00
• Great Western IIPaddington Hotel
• Please add it to your sched :)

Infrastructure

• Some potential contributors

Documentation

Lot of work ongoing for converting Firefox OS references to B2G OS Call for contribution added to the wiki

• B2G/Transition_Project/Call_For_Contribution

Governance

Digest on the discussion to be sent today, governance model to be re-evaluated on Thursday Transition meeting

• https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/governance-working-group/8177/

Communications

Call for contribution B2G/Transition_Project/Call_For_Contribution Share far and wide!

• Translated in French, Japanese and Italian right now.
• German ongoing.
• Feel free to help !

Round Table

Discussions ongoing on the telegram group about how to keep a list of task done/todo/ongoing.

• A discourse topic will be open - for clearer/easier discussions.
• We've been tracking code transition progress on Tracker https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/1568715 (doesn't include everything else)