Gaia/Meeting/2015-03-03

Weekly Gaia Development Meeting

• Date: 2015-03-03
• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/gaia-meeting-notes
• Meeting connection details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G#Meetings
• Host: Ben Francis
• Minutes copied to the wiki by host each week https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Meeting_Notes

Alternate Meeting Times:

• "Early" meetings: Tues 9:00am SF, Wed 12:00am Taipei
• "Late" meetings: Tues 6:00pm SF, Wed 9:00am Taipei

Announcements & Notices

Add your workweeks, new hires, other announcements:

• Daylight saving time? Starts Sunday in the US.
  • Will change Gaia meeting to PST

Talk

• None today. Talk about v3 architecture design coming next week or the week after.

Roundtable

• Should this meeting be on Air Mozilla, or are the meeting minutes on the wiki enough?
  • Email dev-gaia, but probably just record important meetings and upload later
• [Kevin] Moving dev_apps into apps/*/test/fixtures
• Discussing merging tv apps back into main ones
• V3 architecture?
  • Talk next week.
• b2g-desktop vs mulet
  • Integration tests main use of b2g-desktop, working on getting them running on mulet
  • b2g-desktop may be disabled in future
  • Python UI tests need migrating
• Any plans for Google Summer of Code?
  • So far not in the programme this year

QA

Reporter:

• No update

Support

Updates:

• No update

TEAM UPDATES

Productivity

Talking this week: Sprint tracking wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/productivity Notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-productivity The Team: asuth, evanxd, gaye, lightsofapollo, doliver, jrburke, mcav, millermedeiros, awiss, jhford, cserran, tony (qa), william hsu (qa), jhuang (ux), harly (ux) Updates:

• Doing well with blockers, reviewing nominations weekly

Media front end

Talking this week: Our team: Dave Hylands, David Flanagan, Mike Habicher, Jim Porter, Hema Koka, Dominic Kuo, John Hu, Diego Marcos, Wilson Page, Justin D'Arcangelo , Punam Dahiya (part-time), Russ Nicoletti (part-time) Product: Sri Kasetti Ux: Rob MacDonald, Patryk Adamczyk EPM: Candice Serran QA: Marcia Knous Updates:

• Landed hardware keys to capture start/stop recording for camera
• Discussion about the future of the music app, how can we provide a service like Spotify or Google Music? Plugin style architecture?
  • Sounds like Songbird!

Comms app

Talking this week: Updates:

• Working on blockers.
• About to land a patch in contacts similar to email to cache generated HTML
• Landed event_dispatcher.js in shared/, a mixin to add methods like emit, on, off to objects. For more info read David Flanagan's style comments in https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/shared/js/event_dispatcher.js

Systems front end

Talking this week: Ben Sprint tracking wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/systemsfe Daily standups: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-systems-frontend2-0 The team: cserran, gwagner, qdot, michael h, aus, alexandr, francis, jason, pdol, benfrancis, daleharvey, gmarty, sfoster, naoki, tef, tedders1 Updates:

• 2.2 feature complete!
  • Multiple search suggestion providers
  • Search UI refactoring (including EverythingMe removal)
  • RTL support
  • Private Browsing
  • App short_name support
• Currently have 19 2.2 blockers https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/systemsfe/releasetracking#FxOS-Systems_Frontend_Blocker_2.2_Dashboard

Other

• Scroll snapping has landed!

945584 – Implement CSS scroll snapping | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945584 for FxOS only at this point.