B2G/Meeting/2016-09-13

B2G Weekly Meeting

• Date: 2016-09-13
• Host: Jovan
• Notes copied to the wiki each week https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Meeting
• Meeting time: Tuesday, 9am Pacific / 4pm UTC

Attendees

• kskarthik
• krz37
• Jovan
• Alastair (only on Ether)
• m.ducorps (Matth)
• jamie (kinda)

Apologies:

• [benfrancis] I'm not able to attend today due to a meeting conflict, could someone else host please?

Announcements

• Creating milestones for B2G OS https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/creating-milestones-for-b2g/10718 this is just a draft. How and where do we create the programers-palace? :-)
• I think we should be able to create milestones in bugzilla :-)
• Probably a good idea since we did it before, mentioned by Jovan there are some more merchandising posters and flyers in the pipe.
• Are they the latest versions? by Luca, Enrico and Sai
  • flyer : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/302549/B2G%20OS%20Flyer.pdf and
  • leaflet : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y92hcp3p4sxvedy/AABFDcqaSdjIu7FZZfblbzCga?dl=0

Status Updates

Code

• What about the lockscreen bug?
  • sizvix said that it seems because it takes the landscape width and not the portait width. ** this.handle.radius is wrong in portait mode in lockscreen_slide.js
  • Simon is working o this: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/about-the-lockscreen-bug/10804

• If people want to test Alastair's proposed fix for the soft home button, it is here: https://github.com/asppsa/gaia/tree/bug-123472
  • please make a PR and create attachment on the bug Already done +1
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283799

• App porting status
  • Camera
    • I'm trying to fix it, but I have very limited time right now (Jovan)
  • Clock
    • albertopq not actively working but happy to help, contact him on Discourse
    • update github pages
    • fix the alarm API, write an addon
  • SMS app
    • m.ducorps is resuming his work on the app this week. He had been busy ( now checking what's happen this last two months should be able to start working on it by the end of the week)
    • maybe he could file some bugs ( ok will work on it )
  • Cost control
    • bluemini has started some work but is not able to continue at the moment. He can provide an inittial guidance for whoever would like to help, contact him on Discourse
    • maybe he can push his work in github
  • Gallery
    • no answer from haddub
  • FM radio
    • no answer from jzhang
  • Calendar
    • no answer from stargayte

• What are the problems to fix with Gecko right now?
  • debug builds are broken - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1295011
  • permission popups do not work
  • camera API broken

Porting

• Nexus 4 build ready https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/nexus-4-builds/10783 (thanks to Alastair!)
  • is on b2g-installer?
  • No, there will need to be a PR to the installer to make it look in my s3 if we want that, I think. Apparently there is no prospect of getting Nexus 4 builds on Taskcluster again.
• Fairphone blobfree build work is ongoing (thanks to Novski!)
• Xperia E3 (flamingo) build succeedes. Builds are now being produced with some regularity (weekly, as long as I can). Not added to the installer add-on yet (that's important)! (thanks to Enrico!)

Documentation

• B2G old Architecture page call back https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/b2g-os-architecture-page/10787

• MDN Structure reorganization proposal by Novski (https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/mdn-for-b2g/10814/2)

• Novski deleted the wrong and anyway double information about how to bulild on https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G/blob/master/README.md and updated it with Telegram and MDN links

• Novski contacted chris mills to get B2G instead of Firefox OS in to the Header of some Languages on MDN Headers. It seams to be broken https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1300708

Governance

• introduced a loomio decisions making place. https://www.loomio.org/g/WencE2Du/b2gos
  • maybe people should check it out and tell what they think about it
  • krz37 will make a post on discourse

Communications

• Telegram now has a bot that connects IRC #B2G in both directions -> right now we give it a try and see if this works for everyone

QA

• havent gotten much time to talk to the slenium people to figure out solution for chrome://
• I am going to start working on generating new test cases for currently working components
• where should i be hosting the test cases?
  • does github work for that?
• i need a list of components to generate test cases for
  • lockscreen
  • launch an app / browser in general
• if people reach out trying to get involved in QA have them shoot me an email jamie@mozillausa.org
  • Discourse section ?
  • also if someone could shoot me the answers to these questions at the same email address it would be great!
  • but we should communicate this somewhere open :-)
  • i might file a bug report to track components as they are ready for testing/completion as a qa tracker

Round Table

• No activity in gaia repo since a month. What about gecko ?
  • Couple of fixes in gaia yesterday and today
  • Gecko has had fixes on build breakers by Alexandre
• Using https://vroom.im for conference instead of vidyo ( should be tested before switching )
  • Who would like to test it?
    • try to use vroom.im and do a test run next week -> communicate discourse, mailing list, IRC
    • krz37 will do that
    • Skype is working well today (FYI) with Vidyo -- only audio so it is a good backup but maybe not the main channel
• Adding Sony's AOSP devices to installer add-on. It shouldn't be that difficult because Sony itself provides the binaries. Benefit: it would work for many devices. +1
  • obstacles are downloading blobs and agreeing to licenses -> these parts need to be implemented
• Jovan will host meetings for now, if anyone else is interested to host, feel free to say so.