I'm afraid I know the answer but do sombody know if Network Statistics API
is being kept in the new B2G?

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Francisco Jordano <[email protected]>
wrote:

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>
> On 17 March 2016 at 12:18, Benjamin Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 16 March 2016 at 21:56, Aus Lacroix <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> - *Are there any guidelines on what's changed and what's necessary to
>>>> get things working again?*
>>>> I don’t have a good answer for that. I think the main focus for the
>>>> transition is removing Packaged apps support, and some of the b2g specific
>>>> API’s, but that didn’t happen yet, so I’m not why the tests are currently
>>>> failing :/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Neither do I honestly. But, what I can tell you is that the only build
>>> that will work is coming from the Pine branch and that the Kanikani branch
>>> will have good examples on how to update your application as we'll be
>>> updating System and Settings.
>>>
>>
>> Not all apps should follow the example of the system app. As we get rid
>> of app:// our intention is to turn the system apps (all the apps with
>> role=system and possibly others like Settings) into chrome:// and
>> everything else into standard http:// web content. You can read more
>> about that on the wiki <https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Transition_Project>.
>>
>> We should try to avoid just turning all of Gaia into chrome, we should
>> ideally aim to turn most of it into web content. It may be that certain
>> apps do end up being chrome (e.g. the camera and dialer), but we should
>> look for alternative solutions where possible. For example. Gabriele has
>> been investigating whether we can turn the telephony API into a local
>> RESTful web service outside of Gecko.
>>
>
>  +1000
>
>
>>
>> For some reason the Contacts API appears to have recently been made
>> chrome-only (we're not sure why), but ideally we'd come up with a more
>> webby solution (e.g. a contacts web service backed by IndexedDB) rather
>> than make the contacts app into chrome.
>>
>
> I think I have some code (maybe not tested 100%), to mock mozcontacts api
> with indexeddb. Will try to have it working to fix the lack of mozcontacts.
> Will spend some time tomorrow to revive it!
>
>
>>
>> Fabrice and Alexandre have come up with a set of patches to get the
>> system app booting as chrome:// which is our starting point, that's in bug
>> 1256506 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256506>. Once
>> that is landed we should be in a better position to get builds up and
>> running and then start to fix stuff, including figuring out how to port
>> over each app. Contributions to that effort are very welcome!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ben
>>
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