Gaia teams in Taipei, Taiwan

People

Alphabetically ordered by ID.

Alive Kuo (alivedise)	George Tuan (cctuan)	Arthur Chen (crh0716)	Dominic Kuo (dominickuo)	Tzu-Lin Huang (dwi2)	EJ Chen (EragonJ)
Evan Tseng (evanxd)	Evelyn Hung (evelynhung)	Fred Lin (gasolin)	John Hu (huchengtw-moz)	Ian Liu (Ian-liu)	Luke Chang (luke-chang)
Gary Chen (mpizza)	Rex KM Lee (rexboy7)	Rudy Lu (RudyLu)	Greg Weng (snowmantw)	Steve Chung (steveck-chung)	Tim Guan-tin Chien (timdream)
Yuren Ju (yurenju)	We are hiring!

Interns

Jason Lee (LeeChSien)

Tom Jao (mbrsl)

Internship opportunity @ Mozilla Taiwan

On-going work

NOTE

Nothing is committed until it lands in a release :) .

These are the features mainly driven by the Taipei teams, in co-optations with other teams in Taipei and around the world. We are not meant to take all the credit :)

Gaia for Tablet

Meta bug

This week:
landed: 906538 ensure tablet user agent, scroll up gesture to homescreen
In review: replace FTU tutorial images / hide dialer via blacklist
working: 918272 [Flatfish][System] Add animation for home gesture, wallpaper

Need Gecko support:
- 911684 disable navigator.mozTelephony API if device not support
- 911668 change orientation to default

We are targeting the lowest risk approach and work with phone v1.2. So v1.2 Gaia will be adaptable to two form factors. We will only fix cases where the UI is broken.
Here are a rough estimate for each apps
- Estimation is based on Firefox nightly browser, will update if it look different on master.

3rd-party keyboards framework

Meta bug. This is a v1.2 feature. The new IM API documentation

Most work for user story has been closed.
- Details: https://gaia.hackpad.com/Open-work-for-Keyboard-IME-v1.2-KNodVOIOm0b

Next:
- bug 816874 - Tracking: Run keyboard app OOP
- bug 901434 - Keyboard/IME API should be exposed to privileged app
- First-run enabled keyboard layout.
- Other koi+/? bugs for v1.2 - http://mzl.la/18R2o2y

Simplified Chinese IME

This is a v1.2 feature.

bug 900906 - Wrap the pinyin engine with web worker to improve the user experience
bug 906617 - Change Gaia keyboard app to use the new composition methods in IME WebAPI
bug 908592 - Improve symbol panel layout of Pinyin IME
bug 913397 - Make keyboard app support 1.5x graphics

Gaia build script

This is a v1.2 nice-to-have. meta bug and dependency

See the plan.
Modularization in progress.
Build Gaia on Firefox extension, we still have some bug for this work and we plan to land it on next week.
Will open up indiviual bugs for people for help out once the build script unit test framework is completed.
Accomplished 4 build scripts to build modules on v1.2
We plan to accomplish below tasks on v1.3:
- Migrate all python build script to javascript
- Customization Tool for homescreen based on firefox extension which is mentioned above.

Window management upgrade

Meta bug. This is a v1.2 nice-to-have.

HomescreenWindow patch is merged. A regression about trustedUI is noted and having a patch right now.
current: Open/Close transition into AppWindow is under development.
next: ActivitiyWindow
no API changes (yet)
Blocks v1.3 Sheet navigation + Browser integration to system

Gaia for qHD/WVGA

WVGA support is a v1.1 feature.

v1.1hd is dead, vendor will be shipping a phone on v1.2.

John: many non-reproducible bugs being reported by vendor.
We should only resolve what's reproducible on master

CDMA phone support

QA is planning to have a full run test on v1.2 branch.

BT feature support

completed inline pairing
completed adopting new bluetooth APIs in the settings app and the system app
added A2DP status icon

Internship mentorship: system app unit tests

Merged wifi testcase
fixing bluetooth testcase
airplane more test case

Internship mentorship: eng. mode / show case app

Writing more test cases on the app.
Unable to test hardware keys
Will submit a WIP patch this week.

TSOC mentorship: test coverage

TSOC 2013

screenshot https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825913#c32
Landed to gaia-master, also contribute back to blanket.js
wrote an email to dev-gaia https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.gaia/M4RIyjZMjys
Ricky gain the top prize from 29 teams in TSOC (3 top prizes of 29), plus 2 enterprise prizes.

ext. functional team update: media

Working on Music v1.2 must-have features
Inter-App Communication API is landed, started to land the related features
AVRCP(1.0 + 1.3) for music app is landed and demoed in Oslo
Introduced a new module in shared/js/media, remote_controls.js

ext. functional team update: comms

Comms will be helping out CDMA issues for RIL team for non-Settings app issues.
CDMA record information, waiting for spec, display message position etc.
http://bugzil.la/881863 emergency callback need to build emulator to test (instead of actually calling the police)

Gaia/Team/Taipei

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