B2G/Meeting/2016-04-26

B2G Weekly Meeting

• Date: 2016-04-26
• Host: Ben Francis
• Notes copied to the wiki each week B2G/Meeting
• Meeting time: Tuesday, 9am Pacific

Announcements

Latest progress on transition branch:

• Removed Web Activities API
• Removed System Messages API
• New Places database landed
• Now working to get homescreen using new places database and get dialer working

Note: We will soon be trying to merge the transition branches (pine and kanikani) back into master (after TV branches 2.6)

Upcoming community meetings:

• Code Working Group - Tuesday 26th April, 10:00 Pacific
• Infrastructure Working Group - Thursday 28th April, 10:00 Pacific
• Governance Working Group - Friday 29th April, 10:00 Pacific

Status Updates

[benfrancis]

Landed new Places database (bug 1257824)

• Still some work to do to hook it up to homescreen and search

[alberto]

• Fixed settings menus not working after gecko changes
• Reviewing and trying to understand how Places/Sites/Bookmarks (IDB and datastores work)
• Working on getting the search app show Top sites and history again (Bug 1267553)

[KingstonTime]

• Managed to get a working inspector
• Thought I would try again building from scratch - turns out I borked my build at some point so restoring the files at the moment.

[Fabrice]

• I'm working on bug 1261019. That's an endless stream of changes... Should have something ready for next week.
• Priority should be to merge pine to m-c

[nhirata]

• daily testing : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13JUnmRHzXq55uoVh-A1yJVPefEkmHVVS9tRRUgwU6Fw/edit?pli=1#gid=184385983
• verifying Nexus 5 L issue : not enough space -> turned out that I probably didn't have L base android on it first.
• mulet doesn't load profiles: bug 1266838

[Cwiiis]

• Working on homescreen transition bugs (meta bug 1261028)

[aus]

• Will add tests to Tier 1 builds
• Not much progress elsewhere for now, focusing on a different project

Round Table

Poll on devices to support ongoing

• Z3C
• Flame
• Fairphone 2
• Nexus 5
• Xperia device?

Valentin will be shipping devices to some people who would like to contribute