B2G/Meeting/2016-07-26

B2G Weekly Meeting

• Date: 2016-07-26
• Host: Lapineige
• Notes copied to the wiki each week B2G/Meeting
• Meeting time: Tuesday, 9am Pacific / 4pm UTC

Attendees

• Lapineige
• Enrico
• Krz37
• kskarthik

Apologies:

• Ben Francis - sorry I can't attend today as I'm on a training course. Could someone else host please? yes ;)

Announcements

• Yesterday was B2G 5th birthday ! :)

Status Updates

Code Transition

No visible activity on the app site - do you have some news ?

• krz37 will start to work on some app - SMS / Contact first ?

Any news about merge into master?

• Need to ask on discourse
• meta-bug bug 1274295

Any update about the mentoring session ? (and/or related docs ?)

• need to ask @benfrancis

Some people on Telegram raised the idea of a crowd-funding to pay developers

• It's too soon isn't it ? (not enough trust in the project)
• @gsvelto is working on SMS app

Call for gecko contributors made on twitter & discourse

Porting

• Enrico still working on E3 port

Infrastructure

Documentation

• Lapineige: I'll work on the documentation next week, reviewing the wiki / MDN pages, refining content.
• kskarthik: Please contact me for any assistance on MDN.

Governance

Communications

Announcement of B2G's anniversary was made on discourse and twitter (+ a French forum)

• Call for contribution was shared again

Lapineige: Next week I'll submit my proposal for the manifesto

QA

Smartphone

Smart TV

Tablet

Round Table

We need gecko hackers. gerard-majax is not happy with gecko contributions. Lot of pending tasks to do. Gecko is our top priority now. https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/help-getting-the-basic-functionality-for-the-smart-phone-ready/9928

• If you're interested in contributing to gecko, please raise you voice :)