Re: Steve on Vacation

2014-08-29 Thread Mike Billau
Wow Steve you clean up well man! Haha :p What a cool video. On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Steven Gill stevengil...@gmail.com wrote: Haha Thanks guys! I got married July 11-12 up in Vancouver. That is why I was MIA for start of July and end of June. You can see a short wedding highlight

Re: Cordova things

2014-08-07 Thread Mike Billau
Thanks David for all of the help! Good luck to you sir! On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Brian LeRoux b...@brian.io wrote: thanks again David and have fun in the new gig / stop by and say hi whenever! On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Jesse purplecabb...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks David,

Re: Monthly Cordova hangouts

2014-07-18 Thread Mike Billau
If there are people on the view-only link that have stuff to say, there is always IRC that I think a bunch of us monitor during the hangouts. On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Jesse purplecabb...@gmail.com wrote: +1 @purplecabbage risingj.com On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:56 PM, tommy-carlos

Re: Monthly Cordova hangouts

2014-07-15 Thread Mike Billau
. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com wrote: I added something about a default secure configuration: no whitelist, no permissions, etc., that hopefully plays into the whitelist-as-a-plugin topic that I don't think was ever resolved. Maybe this can be a more

Re: Monthly Cordova hangouts

2014-07-14 Thread Mike Billau
I added something about a default secure configuration: no whitelist, no permissions, etc., that hopefully plays into the whitelist-as-a-plugin topic that I don't think was ever resolved. Maybe this can be a more general discussion about security but probably not. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:16

Re: Howdy

2014-07-01 Thread Mike Billau
Howdy Chris! Welcome to the team! Feel free to read through the Contributor Workflow document if you haven't already: http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/ContributorWorkflow On that page is a link to filling out an Apache CLA - you'll need to do this to have your patches accepted. It doesn't take too

Re: Amazon Fire Phone

2014-06-20 Thread Mike Billau
Does anybody know if the device will be available unlocked, or will the unlocked version be delayed like what Apple sometimes does? I've also been badgering for a device, but since we have to take the corporate path it will probably be a few days (weeks?) after July 25 that we get some. On Thu,

Re: Amazon Fire Phone

2014-06-20 Thread Mike Billau
20, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody know if the device will be available unlocked, or will the unlocked version be delayed like what Apple sometimes does? I've also been badgering for a device, but since we have to take the corporate path

Re: Project Release: Patatap

2014-06-18 Thread Mike Billau
Yeah, it's way cool! I'm glad to hear you had a great time using Cordova! I'd be interested to hear about some of your development challenges and what changes we can make to make it easier for other app developers. Nice work though! On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Shazron shaz...@gmail.com

Re: cordova plugin splashscreen

2014-06-16 Thread Mike Billau
Thanks Axel. It looks like the Icon and Splash Screen guide mentions doing it this way but I will update the Android Quirks section. Good catch. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Axel Nennker ignisvul...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think that the section about Android quirks is outdated:

Re: [Vote] Tools Release

2014-05-23 Thread Mike Billau
I needed to upgrade git on Windows. I was on 1.8.0, and when I cleared my /temp/ directory, it was unable to mkdir the complete path when cloning a repo (cordova plugin add https://github.com/) When I upgraded to 1.9.2 it all worked fine. Not sure if this is a new requirement and should be

Re: Draft of Whitelist and Security Guide

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Billau
and succinct (though personally depressing, heh). Thanks for this. On 17 May 2014 02:46, Marcel Kinard cmarc...@gmail.com wrote: I just added the verbage for the Certificate Pinning and Self-Signed Certs sections. On May 6, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Test.

2014-05-16 Thread Mike Billau
gmail tells me this was sent 7 days ago? I stopped getting mail again yesterday. Only tiny random messages float through... I know you guys are talking more than that ;) On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Michal Mocny mmo...@google.com wrote:

Re: 3.5.0 RC is ready to be tested

2014-05-15 Thread Mike Billau
Having some slight issues with plugin dependencies. When I installed /mobile-spec/plugin-dependencies, the CLI told me that File-Transfer and Media depends on File 1.0.1 but version 1.1.0 is installed. Which was awesome. However, after removing file and adding it back with cordova plugin add

Re: sans sudo on npm install

2014-05-14 Thread Mike Billau
If we start telling devs how to configure their machines we might as well get into telling developers how to structure, test, and otherwise architect their apps. But didn't we basically just do that with the Next Steps guide? We didn't say explicitly say you have to do it like X - we

Draft of Whitelist and Security Guide

2014-05-06 Thread Mike Billau
Hi everyone, After Ray's great work on the Next Steps article, I decided to finally start the Whitlist and Security Guide doc, located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13C6ZUZiqP83MQX0MvFlyVUZef-nT4cJwyd-qSvXLkK4/edit# This is an attempt to resolve CB-2179 and CB-5786, and will also be

Re: First stab at Next Steps article

2014-05-05 Thread Mike Billau
I went through this morning and addressed most of the comments that people left (sorry Ray, hope you don't mind!). I think this guide is really shaping up and starting to look great. The only thing really left to resolve is some details around recommending FastClick or not using touch events at

Re: First stab at Next Steps article

2014-05-05 Thread Mike Billau
Ray, why don't you do a PR to /cordova-docs? That way the initial commit will (should?) have your name on it. We should also update /cordova-docs/index.md and add a link to the guide so that it will appear in the left hand list on docs.cordova.io as a top level guide. I think a good spot would

Re: Success with Crosswalk Engine (and webview plugins for 3.5.0)

2014-05-01 Thread Mike Billau
So awesome and exciting! Thanks Joe (and Ian, and everyone else!) Hope the famo.us guys (or at least, their marketing team) doesn't come after ya'll. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Hu, Ningxin ningxin...@intel.com wrote: So excited! Thanks, -ningxin -Original Message- From:

Re: Docs for plugins

2014-05-01 Thread Mike Billau
So the plugin registry will go fetch the appropriate docs from github for whichever version of the plugin you are viewing by using the engine tag on the plugin page and comparing that to the git tags? And then the github page will still just direct to the edge version of the docs? That makes

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Mike Billau
+1 for Joerg's comments. There has been a long outstanding bug to create a Next Steps guide: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-677 I know I personally do not eat my own dogfood enough, and I'm sure the same can be said about a lot of us on this list. It can be pretty difficult to even

Re: [Discuss] Release statusbar plugin

2014-04-25 Thread Mike Billau
+1 for quick release, we have some people who would like to see this fixed as well. We tried `cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.statusbar#r0.1.3` (to pull it in before the borked Android impl) but for some reason the tags were deleted? Maybe I am misunderstanding something but I thought that

Re: [Discuss] Release statusbar plugin

2014-04-25 Thread Mike Billau
useless, but you can use npm info with our registry via: npm --registry http://registry.cordova.io info org.apache.cordova.statusbar Also, +1 for a quick fix vote. Short vote times are completely fine for small emergency fixes. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Mike Billau

Re: Nomination for a new chair for Apache Cordova

2014-04-23 Thread Mike Billau
Thanks a lot Brian for driving the project and always trying to do what's best for the community and the developers! Where's the beer fund I can donate to? ;D +1 Shaz if he is willing! On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Michal Mocny mmo...@chromium.org wrote: On topic: Big +1 to Shaz, a

Re: [REVIEW] Blog post for plugins release

2014-04-23 Thread Mike Billau
Looks great Ian, no nitpicks that Josh hasn't already pointed out on the gist. Including the curated list of plugin changes is awesome. (BTW did you generate that with coho?) On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Andrew Grieve agri...@chromium.org wrote: Looks great. Only nit is toURI - toURL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Plugins released!

2014-04-23 Thread Mike Billau
Who!!! On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Steven Gill stevengil...@gmail.com wrote: Yay! Thanks Ian! You rock. p.s. plugins.cordova.io now shows doc/index.md instead of readme.md when available. See http://plugins.cordova.io/#/package/org.apache.cordova.vibration On Wed, Apr 23, 2014

Re: support on phonegap/cordova?

2014-04-17 Thread Mike Billau
Looks great Steve, thanks! On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Michal Mocny mmo...@chromium.org wrote: No, thats great, I just didn't see it. Thanks! On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Steven Gill stevengil...@gmail.com wrote: I added it as support under development in quicklinks. I can

should FileTransfer.download() auto mkdir target's path?

2014-04-16 Thread Mike Billau
Hello, When using FileTransfer.download(), if the target location contains folders that do not exist on the device, should FileTransfer auto-magically mkdir these folders to save the download? If target= /foo/image.png, and if /foo/ doesn't exist, Android will create the /foo/ dir for you. WP8

Re: ApacheCon recordings and slides

2014-04-16 Thread Mike Billau
Can we also post these to the repo that Carlos was talking about yesterday on the hangout, so others can refer to them as well? On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Brian LeRoux b...@brian.io wrote: hey dudes, these are awesome (I especially like the optimism in how long a release takes ;) can

Re: support on phonegap/cordova?

2014-04-15 Thread Mike Billau
I think that between a users@ mailing list, a google group, an IRC room, and StackOverflow, the best medium we can use to support our users is StackOverflow. Joe makes great points about the benefits that StackOverflow gives us that I don't see the other mediums providing. Sure the GG may be

Re: [Andorid] Why does LOG exist?

2014-04-08 Thread Mike Billau
No idea, ran into this issue a few weeks ago, it's confusing and doesn't seem to add any usefulness. I don't think any of those old IBMers are still working on the project. We could probably track down Simon, or just rip it out. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Grieve agri...@chromium.org

Re: [Vote] Cordova 2.9.1

2014-02-25 Thread Mike Billau
+1. Steve, do you generate the SHAs? Just seems like a strange format...I had to remove whitespace to compare. But then again I use some crappy Windows Explorer extension... On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Lorin Beer lorin.beer@gmail.comwrote: +1 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:14 PM,

Re: input type=file broken on Android 4.4

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Billau
really can't do anything more with this without even more breakage. On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, This ticket[1] came in pretty recently talking about how input type=file does not work with Android 4.4 anymore, regardless

Re: [Android] Deprecation of Geolocation on Android

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Billau
So, any resolution on this? Anything special we need to do regarding the deprecation notice since we're not actually deprecating the plugin itself (need it to add the permissions) but rather just our implementation? On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com wrote: +1

Re: Camera does too many things!!!!

2014-01-24 Thread Mike Billau
How does this coincide with the recent thread about Camera vs Capture? Maybe the best idea would be rewrite Camera from the ground up with simple API calls and put it all into Capture plugin, then remove Camera. I imagine there will be a lot of shared code between the two plugins, especially for

Re: Bunch of docs updates

2014-01-14 Thread Mike Billau
I made some tiny comments. Otherwise, looks good.

Re: [Android] Deprecation of Geolocation on Android

2014-01-14 Thread Mike Billau
+1 to deprecate. Tested Web GPS on 2.3 (lowest that we have) and it worked fine. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Joe Bowser bows...@gmail.com wrote: So, an update on this. 1. Our users don't know how GPS works! I can reproduce Geolocation errors only by disconnecting my WiFi and by not

Re: updating docs with Firefox OS specific notes

2014-01-10 Thread Mike Billau
I thought that after Andrew's work on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5658 that any plugin-specific docs would go in that plugin's repo. So yes to add a caveat to FirefoxOS on that battery-status plugin, you'd submit a PR changing the doc/index.md file in the battery-status repo. I think

Re: Medic/CI

2014-01-08 Thread Mike Billau
(Sorry, I dropped the ball on this and checked out pretty hard over the holidays.) We have a test lab with ~15 Android devices and ~10 iOS devices, all with varying OS levels and availability (sometimes testers need to borrow a device for a few days.) We also have some Windows phone, Windows 8,

Re: npm install -g cordova failure

2013-12-17 Thread Mike Billau
The same thing happened to me on Windows 7. After this failed update, cordova couldn't be found, somehow it was removed. I had to wack /users/me/AppData/Roaming/npm-cache/cordova folder and then redo the install with npm install -g cordova. It seems to work fine now. This isn't the first time

Re: Apache Cordova

2013-12-13 Thread Mike Billau
I think it's always important to clarify the difference between Cordova as an open source engine and downstream distributions like Phonegap, Worklight, the Netbeans IDE, etc. Will the article talk about these distributions or will the article just be another Cordova vs Titanium vs Sencha vs .etc?

Re: Deleting Plugin Docs

2013-12-13 Thread Mike Billau
2. Move plugin information found in cordova-docs into a single README.md file within the respective plugin repos And also remove the /cordova/ folder from cordova-docs, right? This way there will be only one single location for a plugin's documentation (the README.md file inside that plugin

Re: plugins.cordova.io: UX redesign

2013-12-12 Thread Mike Billau
Looks awesome! We've been needing this for a while! Great job, thanks! +1 to Carlos' suggestion above of providing users a readme.md template that they can fill out that we just display on the plugin info page. If they provide nothing, we can probably auto fill this with the registry information.

Fwd: [jira] [Resolved] (INFRA-6422) request linux virtual machine for Apache Cordova project

2013-12-03 Thread Mike Billau
Key: INFRA-6422 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6422 Project: Infrastructure Issue Type: Task Security Level: public(Regular issues) Components: VMWare Reporter: Mike Billau

Re: 3.2.0 blog review

2013-11-22 Thread Mike Billau
I think it would be useful to include a note about Android 4.4, specifically the (known) changes that will negatively affect our users: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5398 - When selecting images with destinationType.FILE_UR, users MUST go through the Gallery app - they can't select

Review request: doc pull requests

2013-11-20 Thread Mike Billau
the reviewboard, but every time I'd upload a diff or use the tools, reviewboard would prepend the letter r to one of the hashes in one of my files. This caused the review tool to reject the diff since it couldn't match the file and hash. Anybody have any experience with this? Thanks, Mike Billau

Re: 2.9.1 + 3.2.0rc1

2013-11-18 Thread Mike Billau
Last week we were able to get a Nexus 5 running Android 4.4, so I was doing mobilespec testing on that. There did not seem to be any serious breaking problems with 3.2.0rc1. I did find the following annoying issues though: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5398 - Selecting any images will

Re: config.xml discussion, we need to talk

2013-11-18 Thread Mike Billau
Billau's suggestions look decent to me. How about classic instead of legacy? Removes the it sucks and will die someday connotation, since that's not true. Braden On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com wrote

input type=file broken on Android 4.4

2013-11-14 Thread Mike Billau
Hi everyone, This ticket[1] came in pretty recently talking about how input type=file does not work with Android 4.4 anymore, regardless of what your target SDK is. Apparently this was a conscious design decision by Android [2]. Does anybody have ideas on how we can fix this? Is this even in

Re: 2.9.1 + 3.2.0rc1

2013-11-06 Thread Mike Billau
I have been testing 3.2.0rc1 on Android 4.2.2 and 4.3 (hitting the 2.x devices tomorrow. Crossing fingers for the 4.4 ROM) Automated tests are fine. I'm getting a few glitches on manual tests for SplashScreen and saving audio/video from Capture so I will investigate to see if these are new

Re: 2.9.1 + 3.2.0rc1

2013-11-06 Thread Mike Billau
gotten stale since it was written. I thought it was pretty cool that 100% of the automated tests in mobile-spec passed. An unbroken set of green dots ;-) I think it's cool as well. I wonder if this would happen on Jasmine 2. On Nov 6, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com

Re: config.xml discussion, we need to talk

2013-10-21 Thread Mike Billau
Lets make the name as confusing as possible, to live up to our history (callback, phonegap, cordova.) ;) Personally I think that the names should try to describe the difference between the workflows instead of trying to prescribe some type of usage, since there are unknown and developing use

Re: Post 3.1 release committer community meeting

2013-10-18 Thread Mike Billau
- Mike Seirra recently wrote up some doc milestones and planning, maybe we should discuss on that thread Sorry I missed you guys yesterday! Mike Billau On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Andrew Grieve agri...@chromium.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Michal Mocny mmo

Re: config.xml discussion, we need to talk

2013-10-17 Thread Mike Billau
Would it be helpful to document both of the supported workflows? We kind of have this documentation in place under Development Paths section in the Overview, but I think we could edit this section to make it more clear that there really are two different development paths, and both are okay and

Re: config.xml discussion, we need to talk

2013-10-17 Thread Mike Billau
! On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Anis KADRI anis.ka...@gmail.com wrote: That would be awesome Mike! On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be helpful to document both of the supported workflows? We kind of have this documentation in place

Re: Medic status and plans

2013-10-10 Thread Mike Billau
of medic, and your buildbot branch is clearly the most complete and working version. Having it in the official repo would make it easier for people to find and contribute to. Mike Billau *For USB hubs, we have been daisy chaining these hubs and have only had charging issues with Samsung tablets: http

Re: About that plugin discovery thing....

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Billau
(Still no word from ASF on the Apache VM: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6422) On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Braden Shepherdson bra...@chromium.orgwrote: Looks good! I'm wondering about the naming convention - does that mean we'll have to change all our plugins from

Re: Apache VM for Medic's CouchDB

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Billau
! On 6/19/13 7:19 AM, Andrew Grieve agri...@chromium.org wrote: Sounds great! On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike Billau mike.bil...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I have been working the last week on getting medic up and running here at our office

Apache VM for Medic's CouchDB

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Billau
, then can somebody involved with ASF help me create the relevant INFRA issues? Thanks, Mike Billau

[jira] [Created] (CB-2278) Docs reference old incubator links

2013-01-21 Thread mike billau (JIRA)
mike billau created CB-2278: --- Summary: Docs reference old incubator links Key: CB-2278 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2278 Project: Apache Cordova Issue Type: Bug

[jira] [Updated] (CB-2278) Docs reference old incubator links

2013-01-21 Thread mike billau (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2278?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] mike billau updated CB-2278: Assignee: mike billau Docs reference old incubator links