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=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Asa Dotzler in Mountain View''
* Arvin Huang [ArvinH] is a grad student at National Cheng Kung University in Taipei, and he fixed his first 2 Firefox OS bugs, a pair of [good first bug][mentor-lang=zh] Gaia Build jshint error bugs.
* Last tuesday, Mozilla branched Firefox OS 2.1/Gecko 34 and opened OS 2.2 development. (Also, mozilla-b2g28_v1_3 has been shut down.)
* Over the last week, ~130 Mozillians contributed code to resolve ~300 Firefox OS issues. 
 
* The top three contributors by volume were
** John Lu in Taipei, who worked heavily on Lockscreen and Keyboard
** Arthur Chen, also in Taipei, brought us some serious new feature work on APN
** and Keven Grandon, out of San Francisco, landed lots of improvements to Rocketbar/Homescreen, and browsing.
 
* A taste of recent changes:
 
* {{bug|1057578}} - New overscroll effect. Scrollable content is stretched uniformly along the overscrolled axis
* {{bug|1033549}} - Data tracking on a per app basis. Viewing data usage within the Usage app shows a breakdown of the overall data usage on a per app basis.
* {{bug|903683}}  - Support for user configurable 24 hour time format
* {{bug|1032631}} - EU roaming APN support
* {{bug|1026685}} - CMAS Alert channel support. Location-based messaging for governments
* {{bug|1011738}} - Theme support for b2g/gaia
* {{bug|1060081}} - Support for Flame Kitkat (KK) builds
* {{bug|1060879}} - Fixes first tap on keyboard being inaudible
* {{bug|1046336}} - New homescreen unlock and keyboard sounds.
* {{bug|985334}}  - Long press on a key, the first choice should be the key that is pressed.
* {{bug|1054184}} - Keyboard 2.1 often misses first keystroke
* {{bug|1061439}} - Prevent IMEngine from touching layouts when inputcontext is gone
* {{bug|1048792}} - Keyboard should not autocorrect words with different char count than input
* {{bug|1048869}} - Keyboard autosuggest nearby keys algorithm doesn't value vertical alignment enough
* {{bug|1016184}} - Enable touch caret on B2G and fix the existing test case failures
* {{bug|1029943}} - Enable selection carets on B2G and fix the existing test case failures
* {{bug|1042713}} - Remove notification icons from status bar now that we have ambient notifications
* {{bug|1035250}} - Show connectivity status during FTE. Show cell and wifi status indicators as users progress through First Time Experience
* {{bug|1054352}} - New videos in FTE tutorial for Vertical Scroll, Sheets, Universal Search, Notifications
* {{bug|1038723}} - Visual refresh of the utility tray and ambient notifications.
* {{bug|1056969}} - Prettifies the data connection indicators in the statusbar
* {{bug|1030925}} - Visual Refresh in Messaging
* {{bug|1041765}} - Messaging thread view redesign
* {{bug|1048845}} - Messaging Compose Panel refresh (subject behavior change)
* {{bug|1048362}} - Messaging Compose Panel refresh (highlight actionable part)
* {{bug|1043177}} - Contacts App: The current Contact edit page is quite messy and the input fields are not grouped or highlighted base on their attributes.
* {{bug|885110 }} - Email App: Switch to whiteout-io email.js libraries from AMD-wrapped and shipped node libraries (mailparser, mimelib, mailcomposer, simplesmtp, addressparser)
* {{bug|1019816}} - Developer option to store logcat to sdcard by shaking the phone


=== Cloud Services ===
=== Cloud Services ===
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