Re: [b2g] Log collection needs improvement

2014-08-20 Thread Tim Chien
Thanks Al for raising the issue. To clarify, I didn't say log switch should be "centralized" in System app. It should be centralized in Gecko. Gaia developers are specifically told not to use |console.log/error| etc. for normal operations because it comes with performance penalty. It sounds like

Re: [b2g] Log collection needs improvement

2014-08-20 Thread James Lal
+sicking, +jst, +paul So over the last few weeks I have had various discussions with people about "logging" (there are metrics and log like data and bunch of random stuff across gecko/gonk/gaia that fit other names too) we really badly need sane logging data that is reachable by some single source

[b2g] Log collection needs improvement

2014-08-20 Thread Al Tsai
Hi all, I am sending this e-mail to start a discussion about current log mechanism. As you might know that we have different ways to collect logs, most kinds of logs need extra actions to enable them since performance issues. With more devices and users, the issues reported may not always come

[b2g] Arabic / UI Bug Bash August 26th: save the date!

2014-08-20 Thread Delphine
Hi everyone! This is a friendly reminder about the Arabic / UI bug bash on Fx OS 2.1 that we're doing on August 26th, at 9am PST/5pm CET This Bug Bash has been organized with the help of Arabic community, who have put a lot of time and effort in helping with organization and getting the word

Re: [b2g] Review of QA's Smoketests

2014-08-20 Thread Jason Smith
Just found out in IRC that the below link doesn't work. Here's a set of links that I think should work: * https://moztrap.mozilla.org/manage/cases/?&pagenumber=1&pagesize=100&sortfield=created_on&sortdirection=desc&filter-productversion=196&filter-suite=241 * https://moztrap.mozilla.org/manage/

Re: [b2g] Review of QA's Smoketests

2014-08-20 Thread Jason Smith
One additional detail to add here - the definition of the smoketest suite should represent the following: * Tests that cause major functionality loss and render the phone significantly unusable * If these tests fail, then we need a 24 hour turnaround time from development to resolve the smokete

[b2g] Review of QA's Smoketests

2014-08-20 Thread Jason Smith
Hi Everyone, I'd like to get feedback on our current smoketest suite to see if there's agreement or disagreement with the test cases currently included in the test suite. Here is a link to the smoketest suite below: https://moztrap.mozilla.org/runtests/run/5060/env/347/?pagenumber=1&pagesize=10

Re: [b2g] New Device, Alcatel OneTouch Fire E (6015X)

2014-08-20 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 20/08/2014 00:44, Daniel Wacker wrote: > So I just ordered another one of these awesome phones, maybe I can rescue the > first one by transferring images. Which tools would be suitable for that task? You can backup the partitions from a working phone using 'dd' to dump them (you can find the r

Re: [b2g] Settings API OOP and Privileged App Permissions Landing

2014-08-20 Thread Chris Mills
digitarald already nudged me about this; it’s on my to do list ;-) Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills On 20 Aug 2014, at 13:59, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2014-08-20, 12:56 PM, Kyle Machulis wrote: >> Yeah, we'll

Re: [b2g] Settings API OOP and Privileged App Permissions Landing

2014-08-20 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-20, 12:56 PM, Kyle Machulis wrote: Yeah, we'll want to update docs once things are landed (Currently doing the revert/revertrevert/revertrevertrevert shuffle on b2g-i due to some very weird issues). The new event will definitely need documentation too. Should I file a bug on this?

Re: [b2g] Settings API OOP and Privileged App Permissions Landing

2014-08-20 Thread Kyle Machulis
Yeah, we'll want to update docs once things are landed (Currently doing the revert/revertrevert/revertrevertrevert shuffle on b2g-i due to some very weird issues). The new event will definitely need documentation too. Should I file a bug on this? - Original Message - > From: "J. Ryan St

Re: [b2g] Settings API OOP and Privileged App Permissions Landing

2014-08-20 Thread J. Ryan Stinnett
This is great to hear! Do we need to let the MDN docs team / someone else know to update docs about this for app developers, so they can learn about this new ability? This seems like something that quite a few developers might be interested in. - Ryan On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Kyle Machul

[b2g] ZTE Open 1.2 Beta

2014-08-20 Thread Paul Hannington
I followed the information on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/ZTE_OPEN and flashed the ZTE 1.2 beta which is found on their dropbox account - no problems beyond any issues which are already known about that build. However, that page contains an additional note a

[b2g] CHANGE: Next merge date is Tue, Sep 2, 2014

2014-08-20 Thread Lawrence Mandel
(Cross posting for visibility. Followups to dev-planning please.) The next merge was scheduled for Mon, Sep 1, 2014, which is labour day in Canada and the US. In order to accommodate holiday schedules, the merge will instead occur on Tue, Sep 2, 2014. This change will have no impact on the Fire