The dialer is a component of Gaia, which in turn is the front-end for Firefox OS. The dialer comprises all of the front-end code for making and receiving calls, including the callscreen, which is a separate app. The dialer team is organized under the umbrella of the communications apps team.

In addition, the dialer team is responsible for emergency calling, CDMA, USSD/MMI, DTMF tones, integration with other communications apps, and dealing with partner requirements.

Meetings/Team Communication

IRC

We mostly use IRC. We're available on #fxos-dialer, and #fxos-comms.

Daily Standup Meetings

The daily standup meeting is composed of two parts: the first is async, and happens sometime before the sync meeting. Full-time dialer team members should write the progress that they've made in the last day on the dialer scrum Etherpad. Part-time members and observers can optionally do the same. Additional instructions on what to write are in that section itself.

The second part of the meeting is sync, and happens over IRC at 2:30 pm GMT (10:30 am EST, 4:30 pm CEST) in the #fxos-dialer IRC channel. Here, participants should only discuss major things, blocking issues, and questions that they have for others. The goal is to keep this meeting 10 minutes long or less.

Comms Apps Meetings

Dialer team members participate in the thrice-weekly comms apps meetings and give updates here. There are no established rules for this, but typically only European members participate, due to timezone differences. These meetings are expected to be killed off soon.

Sprints

Past Sprints

Sprint v2.0-S6, Jul 7 - Jul 21
Sprint v2.1-S1, Jul 22 - Aug 4
Sprint 1, Jun 23 - Jul 4
- Different naming system; this was the first sprint that we documented. It is now retroactively named v2.0-S5.

Sprint Planning

Sprint planning happens every 2 weeks on Mondays, at 1:30 pm GMT (9:30 am EST, 3:30 pm CEST) in Joe Cheng's Vidyo room.

Retrospective

We begin sprint planning with a retrospective. This is the place where we change things. Everybody must think ahead of time about what was good and bad during the last sprint. This could be anything, and can be entirely opinion. Participants should also think of any questions that they have.

During the meeting, everybody dumps their thoughts on the sprint planning retrospective Etherpad, and then we take some time to review them. Ideally, all bad things and questions end up having action items.

Estimates

We have 25 points of velocity every sprint based on 8 team members; 2 part-time. We make estimates as to how long features will take to complete in days, but we don't estimate bugs (or we assume they're 1 point).

Between 50% and 75% (depending on the moment in the release cycle) of the velocity is used for blockers. The rest of the velocity is kept for new blockers appearing during the sprint.

We take the list of bugs in the order of priority, and estimate them together. Estimates are identified by:

[planned-sprint c=X]

tag, where X is the estimated number of days, or "cost".

Priorities

Currently, the rough priority order is: 1.3T+ > 1.4+ > 2.0+ > 2.1+ > features > nice-to-have >= dialer-most-wanted. We can have a look at the nominations (2.1?, etc) too. nice-to-have are provided by the EPM, whereas dialer-most-wanted are decided internally within the dialer team.

Assigning

When we reach the available velocity, we stop. We try to take some tech debt bugs or long term projects (at least 1 per sprint would be nice), identified by blocking the dialer-most-wanted bug, bug 1036516.

Whiteboard Tags

[planned-sprint] - Indicates that we planned to take this at the beginning of a sprint.
[in-sprint=vXXX] - (e.g. [in-sprint=v2.0-S5]) Indicates that we took this in a previous sprint and had to push it to a later one.

During Sprint

Demos

Features/bug fixes with any user visibility should be demonstrated by providing a before and after screenshot, or a video. These should be added as they are completed to the current sprint's "Demos" section. We recommend not waiting until the end of the sprint since it's easier to make these while you're on that feature branch and remember everything.

We also welcome adding demos for changes that aren't visible to the end user. You can choose how you want to present these. Do whatever makes you happy!

Taking more bugs

Bugs inevitably come up during the sprint, so we take them and don't apply the [planned-sprint] tag to the whiteboard. We try to keep enough velocity available to accomodate these. Ideally, and if we plan correctly, our velocity will always be the same (see the current target velocity) by the end of the sprint. We don't estimate these bugs, but we will discuss them in the next retrospective if they were features that we were unexpectedly able to take.

Current Sprint

FirefoxOS/Comms/Dialer/Sprint/v2.1-S2

Status

41,37,35,34,31,31,29,26,25,0

Bugs Taken in Planning

Full Query

ID	Assigned to	Summary	Blocking b2g	Feature-b2g	Whiteboard	Status	Resolution
982163	Doug Sherk (:drs) (inactive)	Remove SimSettingsHelper.getCardIndexFrom shim in CallHandler.call()	2.0M+	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	FIXED
991573	David Garcia [:davidg][retired]	Change success message for Call Barring and Call Waiting interrogation through MMI	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint]	VERIFIED	FIXED
1039643	Tamara Hills [:thills]	Write some unit tests for shared/js/dialer/contacts.js	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=][in-sprint=v2.1-S1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1043133	Jorge Prudencio [:jorgep]	[Dialer] Call with new taller hang up button	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=1][good first bug]	RESOLVED	INVALID
1045515	David Garcia [:davidg][retired]	Always highlight missed calls in call log	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047351	Anthony Ricaud (:rik)	Insert call durations in the call log database	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=3]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047642		Device stuck in the dialer screen	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[caf priority: p3][CR 703272][planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	WORKSFORME
1048285		[Dialer][Call Waiting][Rocketbar] Wrong rocket bar height when trying to establish a second call	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	DUPLICATE
1050196	Germán Toro del Valle (:gtorodelvalle)	[Dialer] Follow up of bug 1024506 - Place new call button momentarily enabled while establishing a second call	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED

9 Total; 0 Open (0%); 8 Resolved (88.89%); 1 Verified (11.11%);

Does not include Bugs Taken but not Completed.

Bugs Taken but not Completed

Full Query

ID	Assigned to	Summary	Blocking b2g	Feature-b2g	Whiteboard	Status	Resolution
1026692	Tamara Hills [:thills]	Access to mute button	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[tako][planned-sprint c=6][2.1-feature-qa+][in-sprint=v2.1-S2]	VERIFIED	FIXED
1038701	Doug Sherk (:drs) (inactive)	[US] Support for ICE Contacts in Lockscreen/Emergency call	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=3][in-sprint=v2.1-S2]	VERIFIED	FIXED
1045499	Doug Sherk (:drs) (inactive)	Switch call log to a 2-line layout	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=3][in-sprint=v2.1-S2]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047353	Anthony Ricaud (:rik)	Create a call information page for call log	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=6][in-sprint=v2.1-S2]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047356	Anthony Ricaud (:rik)	Modify the call log user interface to link to the call information page	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[planned-sprint c=][in-sprint=v2.1-S2]	RESOLVED	FIXED

5 Total; 0 Open (0%); 3 Resolved (60%); 2 Verified (40%);

Bugs Taken During Sprint

Full Query

ID	Assigned to	Summary	Blocking b2g	Feature-b2g	Whiteboard	Status	Resolution
1030430	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")	Call log items should be listbox options	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[b2ga11y p=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1030431	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")	When in incoming call screen the SR can land on select audio channel element that should be invisible.	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[b2ga11y p=1][good first bug]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1030434	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")	Add a proper description for the call screen dialog.	---	No cf_feature-b2g	[b2ga11y p=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047275	Tzu-Lin Huang [:dwi2][:tzhuang]	Test ellipsis side on RTL pages for FontSizeManager	---	No cf_feature-b2g		RESOLVED	FIXED
1050144	Jorge Prudencio [:jorgep]	[Dialer] "Call ended" text not vertically centred	---	No cf_feature-b2g		RESOLVED	FIXED
1050390	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")	Fix visibility issues around hidden elements within the callscreen dialog.	---	No cf_feature-b2g		RESOLVED	FIXED
1051841	Gabriele Svelto [:gsvelto]	[dolphin] There's no title (sim index and operator name) on USSD message received	---	No cf_feature-b2g		RESOLVED	FIXED
1052370	Jorge Prudencio [:jorgep]	[Dialer][Emergency call] Duplicate phone number when typing number	---	No cf_feature-b2g		RESOLVED	FIXED

8 Total; 0 Open (0%); 8 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

All Issues for this Sprint

Full Query

ID	Assigned to	Summary	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g	Whiteboard	Status	Resolution
982163	Doug Sherk (:drs) (inactive)	Remove SimSettingsHelper.getCardIndexFrom shim in CallHandler.call()	2.0M+	---	[planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	FIXED
991573	David Garcia [:davidg][retired]	Change success message for Call Barring and Call Waiting interrogation through MMI	---	---	[planned-sprint]	VERIFIED	FIXED
1030430	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")	Call log items should be listbox options	---	---	[b2ga11y p=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1030431	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")	When in incoming call screen the SR can land on select audio channel element that should be invisible.	---	---	[b2ga11y p=1][good first bug]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1030434	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")	Add a proper description for the call screen dialog.	---	---	[b2ga11y p=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1039643	Tamara Hills [:thills]	Write some unit tests for shared/js/dialer/contacts.js	---	---	[planned-sprint c=][in-sprint=v2.1-S1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1043133	Jorge Prudencio [:jorgep]	[Dialer] Call with new taller hang up button	---	2.1	[planned-sprint c=1][good first bug]	RESOLVED	INVALID
1045515	David Garcia [:davidg][retired]	Always highlight missed calls in call log	---	---	[planned-sprint c=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047275	Tzu-Lin Huang [:dwi2][:tzhuang]	Test ellipsis side on RTL pages for FontSizeManager	---	---		RESOLVED	FIXED
1047351	Anthony Ricaud (:rik)	Insert call durations in the call log database	---	2.1	[planned-sprint c=3]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047642		Device stuck in the dialer screen	---	---	[caf priority: p3][CR 703272][planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	WORKSFORME
1048285		[Dialer][Call Waiting][Rocketbar] Wrong rocket bar height when trying to establish a second call	---	---	[planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	DUPLICATE
1050144	Jorge Prudencio [:jorgep]	[Dialer] "Call ended" text not vertically centred	---	---		RESOLVED	FIXED
1050196	Germán Toro del Valle (:gtorodelvalle)	[Dialer] Follow up of bug 1024506 - Place new call button momentarily enabled while establishing a second call	---	---	[planned-sprint c=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1050390	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")	Fix visibility issues around hidden elements within the callscreen dialog.	---	---		RESOLVED	FIXED
1051841	Gabriele Svelto [:gsvelto]	[dolphin] There's no title (sim index and operator name) on USSD message received	---	---		RESOLVED	FIXED
1052370	Jorge Prudencio [:jorgep]	[Dialer][Emergency call] Duplicate phone number when typing number	---	---		RESOLVED	FIXED

17 Total; 0 Open (0%); 16 Resolved (94.12%); 1 Verified (5.88%);

Does not include Bugs Taken but not Completed.

Bugs Redirected

Full Query

ID	Assigned to	Summary	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g	Whiteboard	Status	Resolution
982163	Doug Sherk (:drs) (inactive)	Remove SimSettingsHelper.getCardIndexFrom shim in CallHandler.call()	2.0M+	---	[planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	FIXED
991573	David Garcia [:davidg][retired]	Change success message for Call Barring and Call Waiting interrogation through MMI	---	---	[planned-sprint]	VERIFIED	FIXED
1039643	Tamara Hills [:thills]	Write some unit tests for shared/js/dialer/contacts.js	---	---	[planned-sprint c=][in-sprint=v2.1-S1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1043133	Jorge Prudencio [:jorgep]	[Dialer] Call with new taller hang up button	---	2.1	[planned-sprint c=1][good first bug]	RESOLVED	INVALID
1045515	David Garcia [:davidg][retired]	Always highlight missed calls in call log	---	---	[planned-sprint c=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047351	Anthony Ricaud (:rik)	Insert call durations in the call log database	---	2.1	[planned-sprint c=3]	RESOLVED	FIXED
1047642		Device stuck in the dialer screen	---	---	[caf priority: p3][CR 703272][planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	WORKSFORME
1048285		[Dialer][Call Waiting][Rocketbar] Wrong rocket bar height when trying to establish a second call	---	---	[planned-sprint]	RESOLVED	DUPLICATE
1050196	Germán Toro del Valle (:gtorodelvalle)	[Dialer] Follow up of bug 1024506 - Place new call button momentarily enabled while establishing a second call	---	---	[planned-sprint c=1]	RESOLVED	FIXED

9 Total; 0 Open (0%); 8 Resolved (88.89%); 1 Verified (11.11%);

Bugs