B2G/Meeting/2016-09-20

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
•  !!! This week, the meeting is in this room (but we keep using this pad) : https://vroom.im/b2g_os_weekly_meeting !!!

Attendees

• kskarthik
• krz37
• Novski
• Jovan
• m.ducorps (Matth)
• benfrancis

Apologies:

• [Luca] hope to be with you, but it depends on work schedules ... !
• [gsvelto] timing is terrible for me so I can't attend, but I've got news about the emulator, see below

Announcements

Status Updates

• Let's finalize the milestone documents if possible for B2G and the doc https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/B2G_Milestones

• B2G Installer assets updated https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288910 (Thanks Jovan)

• Taskcluster build broke on 14.9 but is now fixed

• I've got the x86 KitKat emulator running again on my box, it needs a small patch that I'll commit soon. This should allow testing the telephony apps without the need for a phone plus other niceties. I'm now working on getting the Lollipop emulator also working. I'm not sure if we have plans for porting to Marshmallow but I wouldn't consider that until we get the rest of the functionality back first.

Smartphone

• Sms app porting started (https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/sms-app-porting/10935 @Thanks to Matthieu, follow issues https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/sms-app-porting/10935/1 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1302634
  • struggling with the testing no Mulet build for mac and don't really understand how to use the "opt" from here...
    • https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=mozilla-inbound&filter-tier=1&filter-tier=2&filter-tier=3&filter-searchStr=mulet
    • Is where can i find the source and/or a doc to build mulet for Mac ? No more build for OSx from what i understand
      • mulet source is gecko, so see mozilla-central
      • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mulet#How_do_I_run_B2G_OS_on_it.3F this is how you build mulet
    • Linux we have this 2 bugs regarding mulet
      • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304038
        • Regarding this bug does anyone know how to do this:"Can you also provide a Gecko patch that updates the sha1 in b2g/config/aries/sources.xml and b2g/config/nexus-5-l/sources.xml for the Gaia project" not sure where the doc are..
      • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304019

Smart TV

Porting

• Fairphone 2 Blobfree build, work in progress...(novski)
  • blobfree not yet ready there is a problem with the building of pulled blobs to a system&boot.img- i need to reach out to Atila (Juan) but he doesn't reply...

Infrastructure

• Old architecture page is back on MDN. Update in progress to adapt new architecture https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/B2G_OS/Architecture

Documentation

• lets talk about the organisation of MDN and improvements: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/MDN_B2GOS_Organisation and here the discourse topic: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/mdn-for-b2g/
  • Proposition of restructuring
    • Can we easly recreate a full structure for the documentation in MDN ? Do we need specific access, right etc ?
    • Transfer required, take care of language (Novski)
  • Should we instead improve https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/B2G_OS i.e. Add at the end of the page "Quick architecture reference" with the new organization referencing to appropriate pages? (m.ducorps and krz37)
  • Next step start the discussion on discourse to have a first draft of the Doc. and here the discourse topic: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/mdn-for-b2g/

• can we increase the double information on Wiki and make it a first landing space for new users? By deleting all developer information out of it? (novski)
  • Add a note on the "archive page" ie mulet OSx/Windows doesn't work for now.
  • review this page https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G to have it more user friendly

• See the round table notes below from Luca, we need to update the Compatible device page,

• Organise a dedicated meeting about Documentation. krz37 will post about it on *

• Let's wait one more week and if there is no feedback about the documentation, we'll just go ahead and do the modification we've proposed in the etherpad

Governance

Communications

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS Needs edit, any volunteer? Let's post it on discourse after the meeting if not+1

• For people using Twitter, do no hesitate to follow @boot2gecko

QA

Round Table

• Why don't we use Bountysource to speed up bugs closing? There are:
  • a b2g team (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/b2g) - Matthieu claimed it (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/b2g/settings).
  • and a mozilla-b2g team ( https://www.bountysource.com/teams/mozilla-b2g) - Matthieu also claimed this, @Thanks again!
    • For now no feedback from bountysource, if someone close to Mozilla have an idea how to get in touch with this guy https://github.com/andreasgal/B2G there is chance he is the admin ( he was CTO at Mozilla :) )
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gal

• We just need to update a previous team or it's better to create a totally new one? Imho, we should also considering Salt as a crowdfounding option. (From the FAQ: Through Salt open-source projects can collect monthly contributions from supporters in order to reliably and predictably fund ongoing development). In my opinion it would be great for the project development!
  • For now wait and see feedback from Bountysource.

• We should update the Compatible device page, update porting statuses and adding new supported devices https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/B2G_OS/Building_and_installing_B2G_OS/Compatible_Devices. Should we schedule a dedicated documentation meeting? We can also use it to discuss the documentation organization/status (see also what Novsky wrote here https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/mdn-for-b2g/10814) (Luca)
  • see documentation topic above

• Trying to involve this guy https://twitter.com/FabianOvrWrt ... he is doing a good job tweaking firefox os UI.

• kskarthik: shall we contact the dev's to reserve this name for our community ? https://vroom.im/b2g_os_weekly_meeting
  • seems not really stable we where 5 pepole but 2 at the end, audio only seems to work okey
  • if we want to reserve the room, we just have to put a password but it is wiser to go back to Vidyo at the moment that was more stable for everyone