B2G/Meeting/2016-05-31
B2G Weekly Meeting
- Date: 2016-05-31
- Host: Ben Francis
- Notes copied to the wiki each week B2G/Meeting
- Meeting time: Tuesday, 9am Pacific
Contents
Announcements
- B2G Transition Project officially finishes today B2G/Transition_Project
Status Updates
[alberto]
- Working on making the dialer work again -> https://github.com/albertopq/gaia/tree/dialer
- Outgoing calls working \o/
- Incoming calls not working (missing alternative to system messages)
- Issues on the callscreen (not all the buttons work)
- Call log not working (we add entries on call ended events, which don't work beacause of lack of system messages)
- Alastair ready to help : https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/help-on-the-dialer/8779
[gsvelto]
- Couldn't work on the transition this week but I've spent some time looking at the patches that removed stlport to figure out what we need to do
Code Transition
Feature complete except for dialer https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/b2g-transition-requirements Still need to merge into master
- Tests are green on Linux 64 bit, need to verify on others
- Only thing that blocks us is that we fixed some things with a hack and need to fix, Reuben working on this
- Apps API expected to be removed shortly after merge - very large patch
"C++11 standard library support enabled on all Tier-1 platforms" https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/v_T59V5QRss/Ti6Shz_mOwAJ
- Removing support for STL port, this is likely to cause B2G breakage
- What do we need to do to fix this? (Thomas & Gabriele have spent some time looking at this)
- 16 volunteers for mentoring sessions (sudden increase during last week)
Porting
B2G installer is not signed, still have to fix the following bugs:
- bug 1275063
- bug 1275065
- [Lapineige] I want to help here, still have too few time
A (cool) description is also needed to present it well on addons.mozilla.org
- [Lapineige] I will tackle this
Infrastructure
Github repo for (non-technical) task management https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2GOS-community/issues
- Fell free to come and add task, help to complete them, ... :)
Documentation
Help/review welcome on the FAQ: B2G/Transition_Project/FAQ
- related task: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2GOS-community/issues/15
- (Huge!) addition today by Marvin Khoo https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/faq-section/8764
- Lapineige and Valentin will handle some review, but help and technical review appreciated
Work on "Getting started on B2G OS" presentation last week:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YuQaLr-hiduT5xyT4TaiaUDYOsZAnmadduevAE6MOKo/edit?usp=sharing
- Script to automate dev environment setup in progress: https://kobra.io/#/e/-KIgoOrDsk3QO12cyGkw
- Help still needed on Gecko part of presentation
Documentation working session on Thursday 11:00 UTC to 13:00 UTCalbertopq:
Governance
Last week the decision to create a Council has been made: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/B2G_gov_model_proposal
- It will tackle governance decision for the next 6 months, and organize discussions around the next governance model
- Volunteers welcome :) 9 people right now
Manifesto: I proposal has been made by Ben Francis It's a lot shorter, closer to Mozilla's Manifesto It might need explanations / more details to be clear
- Lapineige is working on a proposal, based on Ben's one, with some additional details (a bit like Mozilla Manifesto, if you click on the points)
Communication
- Some flyers with the Call for Contribution were shared during the Ubuntu Party in Paris last week-end: File:B2GOS-flyerA5-deux-ex.pdf
- Call for contribution shared within several Mozilla locales communities (including India)
Any special communication for the end of the transition phase?
- after the merge has happened, at least to keep people informed on which branches to use
Round Table
Related: Project Tablet kicks off tomorrow Connected_Devices/Projects/Project_Tablet
- Connected Devices working a user study to test the demand for a simple tablet dedicated to browsing the web
- Link to the meeting time/place ?
Some figures about the telegram group: ~117 members 2 weeks ago ~147 last week 165 right now [benfrancis] There are currently 261 people in the #dev-fxos IRC channel, any progress on a bridge?
- https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2GOS-community/issues/7
- 2 volunteers to help on the bridge - need to avoid to be ban for flooding
People come mostly by waves - seems like 1 new communication channel create this effect from time to time
- Conclusion: the communication seem to be working ! :)
Questions ? Share them !