WebAPI/2012-10-09

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WebAPI Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2012-10-09 - 10:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98413
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• WebAPI Vidyo Room / SF-Golden Gate (3rd floor) / Toronto-Spadina
• Join irc.mozilla.org #webapi for back channel

Notes will be taken on etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes

Agenda

• Jonas
  • generally positive about B2G release
  • working on user stories with Telefonica
  • let us know if you have use cases for platform features
  • need use cases for tel:, <meta name=viewport>
• Jan
  • will attach a patch for bug 787804 (test_quota.c elimination) this week
  • working on a jetpack blocker, bug 786688 (indexDB.openForPrincipal)
  • implementation of the synchronous IndexedDB API has been choosen for a diploma thesis (Jonas helped to choose the topic), I will guide the student, bug 798875, student's name: Vendelin (Vendo) Ruzicka
    • timeframe: now through March/April
• Mounir
  • reviews
  • trying to get rid of basecamp-blockers (two are still pending because of B2G breakages)
  • working on Q4 goals
• Andrea
  • Bug 797871 - bug in nsMutliplexInputStream - Doug should review my patch today(?)
  • Bug 794386 - do not store blob: URIs in global history - patch landed
  • Transferable objects - patch landed + blog post with demo on planet.
    • http://143th.net/post/32874476488/transferable-objects-for-ff
  • Bug 282547 - [XHR] Login dialog with wrong XMLHttpRequest authentication - landed
  • Bug 781425 - ArchiveReader doesn't handle non-ASCII non-UTF-8 filenames correctly - super-review needed - Jonas?
  • Bug 799125 - it seems indexDB works on file://...
  • Bug 796293 - [camera] Picking camera after long press causes app crash and phone reboot - path submitted
  • Bug 703612 - Make DBUS calls asynchronous to prevent slowness because of DBus daemon being overloaded in Battery API UPower backend; waiting for review
• Ben
  • meeting from bicycle
  • IDB from file://
  • continuing to re-work how we store things for "data jars" initiative
  • adding new tests/suites that make use of IPC stuff? talk to bent
• Doug
  • Finished the Wifi/IP Geolocation provider for B2G (patches up for review)
  • Going to look into bug 793955 - blobs from device storage don't have modification dates
  • Reviews!
• Rob
  • WebSMS continued (WebAPI marionette tests)
• Geo
  • Working on getting https://github.com/geoelectric/webapi-smoke-sprint running locally before putting up for dev review. Mostly there, have some issues with timeouts that we should be able to get past today.
• Sheppy
  • We're collecting a list of subject-matter experts for APIs so we can contact the right people for documentation; please add yourself here as appropriate: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Project:Subject-matter_experts
  • Documentation work is gradually ramping up. Expect to start getting questions soon!
  • WebAPI documentation landing page on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI
  • dev-doc-needed bugzilla keyword FTW
• Round table / open discussion
  • who's going to TPAC? http://www.w3.org/2012/10/TPAC/#Registration
    • Jonas, Mounir, Doug (? if so, sign up this week!)