Gaia

About

Gaia is a collection of web apps which make up the UI for the Boot to Gecko project.

Team

Casey Yee (IRC: cyee)
Josh Carpenter (IRC: jcarpenter)
Patryk Adamczyk (IRC: patryk)

Design

Principles, Patterns, Building Blocks

PDF to come

First Run Experience

First Run Experience

Design Implementation

Flexible UI
- Outline - Draft
- Assets for Testing (file missing)
Modularization

Apps

Priority 1

Priority 2

System

Apps Management (install, management, permissions, updates, uninstall)
Activities
Consumption Control
Privacy
File Management
Identity
Localization & Internationalization
Keyboard (UI, auto-correct)
Text-Handling (cursor, selection, copy/paste)
Multitasking
Notifications
Search
Settings
System Updates
Type
Window Management

Miscellaneous

Contributing

Filing Bugs

Issues are filed on Github.

Hacking

You can fork us on Github, then send a pull request.

A lot of the apps should be able to run in a web browser (particularly Firefox Nightly), but sometimes you may need to run them on B2G until new APIs land in browsers. See Gaia/Hacking to get started.

Communicating

You can find us in #gaia on irc.mozilla.org and we use the B2G mailing list.

Reviewers

Gaia does not have formal module owners, but the following developers are good candidates to review patches to the following modules and apps:

Module	Reviewers (irc nick/github username)
Dialer	etienne_s/etiennesegonzac
Messages	timdream
Browser	benfrancis/benfrancis
Camera	benfrancis/benfrancis
Gallery	djf/davidflanagan, benfrancis/benfrancis
Video	djf/davidflanagan, kaze/fabi1cazenave
Homescreen	djf/davidflanagan
Keyboard	timdream
Settings	kaze/fabi1cazenave
Calculator
Music	djf/davidflanagan
Clock	etienne_s/etiennesegonzac

Coding Style

Background:

make sure HTML files are declared <!DOCTYPE html> (i.e., HTML5). IE9+ will load them in compatibility mode otherwise.

add a "use strict"; statement (exactly that!) to the top of your JS files

2 spaces for indentation - do not use tab.

Line break are free (I promise) don't hesitate to use them to separate logical block inside your functions.

Files are named like_this.js.

Use single quote instead of double quotes.

Additional rules:

Bad:

if (expression) doSomething();

Correct:

if (expression)
  doSomething();

Before submitting a patch

On each javascript files you are adding or you have modified, run:

gjslint --nojsdoc my_file.js

http://code.google.com/closure/utilities/docs/linter_howto.html