Gaia/Meeting/2014-04-08

• Date: 2014-04-08
• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/gaia-meeting-notes
• Meeting connection details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G#Meetings
• Host: aus
• Minutes copied to the wiki each week https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Meeting_Notes

Announcements & Notices

• Systems Front End new hire: Guillaume Marty!

QA

reporter: Jason

• 1.3
  • Automation only support
  • QA Wanted support as needed
• 1.3T
  • Smoketest: 45/48 tests passed, blockers below
    • [Vendor] [Dialer][V1.3T] The caller and receiver cannot hear any voice https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988786
      • currently we are testing new base image, which might fix this.
    • [Factory Reset] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991304
  • Tarakorun 2: 263 passed, 15 failed, 0 blocked, 2 invalid / 3450 cases total. Coverage is at 9%
• 1.4
  • Smoktest: 47/48 tests passed, blockers below:
    • [Camera - Fixed] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991344
  • QC top concern items: 980549; 985681
  • 2nd 1.4 test run completed last week on Buri
• 1.5
  • Smoketest: 45/48 tests passed, blockers below:
    • [Graphics - Fixed] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991905
    • [Camera - Fixed] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991344
• Gaia UI Automation
  • 1.5 - 107/130 tests passed, the volume of work is too great for current resources and test failures are backing up
  • 1.3 - 128/130 tests passed

TEAM UPDATES

Productivity

Talking this week: gaye 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, jhford, cserran, tony (qa), william hsu (qa), jhuang (ux), harly (ux)

• Clock
  • mcav and millermedeiros worked together to land a large clock refactor
  • alarm volume control
• Calendar
  • Lots of things breaking and blocking
  • Yahoo! caldav sync broken on all branches
  • Periodic sync broken at least on >=1.3
  • Notifications weirdness around events that fire simultaneously
  • Resurrecting visual refresh work
  • Closed up integration test refactor, sent around documentation about writing integration tests and improving quality
• Email
  • jrburke still working on virtual scrolling (1.4)
  • search fixes
• Misc
  • :gaye working with :ahal on creating marionette js device host

Media front end

Talking this week: read-only

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

Performance

Talking this week: hub

• TEAM: bkelly, eli, geo, hub, huseby, jhylands, jld, kgrandon, mchang, mlee, wlach, Walter Chen
• Sites
  • Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Performance
  • Sprints: http://scrumbu.gs/p/fxos-perf/
• Updates:
  • Work week last week in Taipei
    • Talks on tooling for performance
    • Talks about technique to analyze performance
    • Q2 goals
  • "a proposal on one tool to rule them all" - [:huseby]
    • Filling out a proposal to get "interesting" events (e.g. mem pressures, jank, timer stalls, OOMs, memory usage, power usage spikes, etc) fed into a single event stream for triggering the profiler and for graphing in Cleopatra
    • All perf tooling will be linked to/documented here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Performance
  • Discussions on how to improve our tools and dashboard.
    • Datazilla is going to get some love. We want to show a bunch of new perf-related stats (e.g. memory usage, OOMs, power usage, etc).
  • Tarako is still a focus
  • Working 1.3+ blocker related to running browsermark on device (bug 987556)

Comms app

Talking this week: Anthony

• Dialer: Exploring moving the call screen to a separate app to have good responsiveness when receiving a call (especially for Tarako)
• Messages: New sound when sending a messag that doesn't make the phone look slooooooooooow.
• Ongoing:
  • Splitting First Time Use application outside of the "Communications" app
  • Visual refresh: Some parts already landed, including in Building blocks
  • "Haida-ification" of Contacts

System front end

Talking this week: Michael H

• Sprint tracking wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/systemsfe
• Daily standups: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-systems-frontend1-4

The team: cserran, gwagner, ladamski, kyle m, michael h, aus, sam, alexandre, francis, jason, atsai, pdol, benfrancis, daleharvey, naoki, john, tef

• new team member!!! Guillaume
• usability testing demo work
• new homescreen
• rocketbar
• task manager update
• b2g-desktop OOP ongoing

Round Table

• [jsmith] What Gaia apps could potentially move from being certified to privileged?
  • [Calendar] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=996189