Connected Devices Weekly Update/Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-06-07

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This past month the team conducted a study in the busy family segment to test the following:

1. The busy families want an easy way to help them with personalized reminders & memos for various people in their household. PROVED

2. The busy families want a way their children can interact with a device that can help with homework DISPROVED

3. The busy families want a simple way to order groceries (etc.) & get it delivered without having to use a screen no matter whether they are home or away. PROVED

4. The busy families want an easy way for everyone in their household to listen to music without any supervision or screen time. PROVED

Next steps: Target the “Busy Mom” (refined the target segment after analyzing results of the study)

• Support a way to interact with Link using Voice
• Implement a 3rd party voice solution
  • Investigations of 3rd party Voice solutions for the next phase of Link were completed and presented to the team last week.
• Focus on the “Organize & Coordination” theme
  • Reminders
  • Schedule coordination
  • To-Do List (may be)
• MVP definition to be completed at the London work week.

Link team is simultaneously investigating collaborations or partnerships with 3rd parties.

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• Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki
• Plan to continue support thru Q1 2018. Have some logistics to resolve for the period from Jan 1 2017 to March 31 2018. Will continue to keep an eye on that.

• Smartphone Code Transition Wiki
• Work has been completed, for the most part, and the code is being turned over to the volunteer community. Just a few loose ends remain to be finished up this week.
• Work remains to modernize C++ infrastructure for B2G, or it won't build any longer. There's a patch set for this in Bug 1276927, which requires a bit more testing and cleanup before the review. Estimated 2-3 work days to get this finished, but will have it done before the London All-hands.
  • Bug 1276927 - Build B2G with modern C++11 compiler and STL
• Dialer should be fully working by end of this week. Still an issue with incoming calls related to how system messages are handled.
  • Bug 1277836- Incoming calls are not received if the Dialer is not open - This is about a need for a mechanism to wake up apps when there is a system message that requires it.
• Still some work to merge pine on mozilla central. Should be done by end of this week. Greening up tests.
  • Bug 1274295 - blockers for merging pine to m-c
  • Bug 1252482 - Testing / Build Related Tasks
• After this week, staff members will no longer be working on the B2G transition except as volunteers.

• B2G OS Transition Wiki
• B2G OS Transition Wiki
• Public Transition Dashboard
• Smartphone apps to transition to web apps
• Web or Dead Apps
• Getting Started mentoring presentation
• Code Contributors Getting Started Guide
• B2G FAQs
• Code Working Group

Global overview:

• 16 candidate volunteers for mentoring sessions, up from 13 a week ago; 165 people on Telegram, up from 144 a week ago; 261 people on IRC
• Meetings on Thursday at 18:30 CEST/16:30 UTC/9:30am PDT/22:00 IST where you can participate in the following:
  • B2G Vidyo room
  • B2G OS telegram group
  • '#fxos' IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org.

Building and Porting (~10 volunteers)

• There are regular volunteer builds for flame and volunteer builds for Open C
• B2G installer addon signed, will be available on addons.mozilla.org soon

Infrastructure (2 volunteers)

• Mozilla Corporation can continue to provide B2G infrastructure but not the staff to keep it running. May want a separate instance of certain tools.
• Need volunteers to run the infrastructure.
• Potential contributors identified.

Governance (8 volunteers)

• Provisional Council created for the next 6 months, manifesto in progress