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