+1 - thanks for taking care of that. Less mailing list friction = one less
confusing thing for contributors.
Seems like we should also merge IRC channels into #fxos?
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 7:48 AM, Michael Henretty
mhenre...@mozilla.com wrote:
Hello people of Firefox OS,
Unfortunately I can't project the feature with an integration test because
the entire flow requires Internet download and our test bots can't access
network. I don't think this should happen again though.
The homescreen and system app both use a mock HTTP server[1] to download and
install
Is it by chance possible to maintain support for the old format for a time
to give developers a chance to transition existing addons into the new
format?
Best,
Kevin
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Fabrice Desré fabr...@mozilla.com wrote:
Hi all,
Work is ongoing to share the same add-on
2) Races, start-up races everywhere
This seems easy to fix by having the observer return a promise, and
wrapping it with .then().
3) It hides lock management from the caller
I personally feel that getting rid of the library is going to create more
races. I think the helper library is a nice
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(I like having lots of peers where possible, so I'm totally fine
introducing Yura
The only problem I see with this is that the web components implementation
is definitely going to change, and will guarantee breakage of most web
components usage with the current implementation. I would say that we
should wait until we have an implementation which will not break in the
future now
Gabriele -
This looks really great, thanks for the tip! It seems like needing the
history of things pulled in by config.sh would be the exception, and not
the norm. How do you feel about making this the default?
Best,
Kevin
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Gabriele Svelto gsve...@mozilla.com
Kumar - did you flash a flame base image on the open C? I don't think
you're supposed to do that, but I don't know these devices too well. Can
you send the link of the documentation where you read that?
Is there anything interesting in logcat?
Best,
Kevin
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Kumar
Which base image did you install on the flame before flashing Gecko?
Best,
Kevin
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:57 PM, rnicole...@mozilla.com wrote:
I'm building gecko on OSX 10.9.5 for a flame. My workflow is:
./config.sh flame-kk
./build.sh gecko
./flash.sh gecko
The build succeeds yet the
Sorry about the blank post, still learning how to use lists apparently.
Question - is it possible to flash an image using the b2g flash tool? Any
reason I would need to flash Android first if upgrading from a KK flash?
Best,
Kevin
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Kevin Grandon kgran
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Shawn Huang shawnjoh...@gmail.com wrote:
NEXUS-5-L now is based on 5.1. Please flash Android LMY47D image first
then Firefox OS, if you only auto-update gecko.
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I believe this was changed to holding the power button + volume down for a
short while. Some devices only have a software home button so this needed
to change.
Best,
Kevin
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
jema...@openmailbox.org wrote:
Hello there ,
I am using
Hey Jan,
What you're doing with janOS is great, and it's great to see some
experimentation with IoT. I love hacking on hardware, so I'd like to see us
do *something* with FxOS and hardware.
+1 to what Gabriele said though. I'm curious about what the advantages are
of building your own dev board
Do we really want to fully deprecate packaged apps? I think making hosted
apps and packaged apps equals is a big win, but I'm not sure if fully
deprecating packaged apps is a good idea.
There are many developers who like the ability to not run and maintain a
server. It's simply less work and
It also sounds like the user is trying to flash the flame-kk images to a
ZTE Open C? It seems like that might cause problems as well.
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Kevin
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So do we have to import the calendar every time you add/change an event?
Should we get this added to the public FirefoxOS calendar instead?
Best,
Kevin
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Christopher Lord cl...@mozilla.com wrote:
Hello folks,
TL;DR: Office hours meeting, Friday, 4:00pm-6:30pm
So now the other question, is there any advantage of using mozAlarms over
sync? Should mozAlarm usage be deprecated?
Best,
Kevin
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote:
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Michael Henretty mhenre...@mozilla.com
wrote:
Thanks for
/2015 03:16 PM, Kevin Grandon wrote:
So now the other question, is there any advantage of using mozAlarms
over sync? Should mozAlarm usage be deprecated?
The semantics are very different. Why should we need to care about
network status to ring an alarm in the morning?
RequestSync will replace
Just curious, would this be a non-issue if we stored more information than
just a boolean? What if we stored additional information say, in JSON? Have
we thought about using datastore?
As we've seen in the past moving stuff into gecko can be a slippery slope,
so we should definitely think this
Just an update that this meeting has been moved to Thursday at 5:00pm. This
should give us some more time to plan, and find a mic to use.
Sign up on the etherpad:
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/PDX-engineering-lightning-talks
Best,
Kevin
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Have something you've been working on, something you want to work on, or an
idea you want to talk about? We'll be holding lightning talks on Tuesday at
5:00pm at the Mariott. Sign-up here for a guaranteed spot:
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Best,
Kevin
Gaia is closed again as of this morning for Gij bustage.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1098155
Getting Gij unhidden is our top priority right now, and it's getting close.
This should avoid these closures in the future.
Best,
Kevin
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The problems are fixed now, so we should be good to go. These fixes haven't
propagated to m-c builds yet, so gaia-try will still show red builds. I'd
recommend rebasing in a few hours once b-i merges to m-c.
Best,
Kevin
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From: Kevin Grandon kgran...@mozilla.com
Question for those who are complaining about taking screenshots. What version
of the phone are you using? I've noticed that on 2.2 (and probably 2.1), the
new delay makes it a much more deliberate action. It just seems that we can
solve this through software, and I think we may have already
The idea of the DESKTOP=1 helpers was that they provide some basic API shims
that were not available on Firefox Nightly before. I am sure that there are
still some shims that we want to mock in the new simulator, we should probably
just go through and check them one by one.
For now though, it
Doh! I think the failing tests in 2.1 could totally be my fault. I added
support for the SHB in b2g desktop and I don't think it made it into v2.1 =/
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/c0de5b317b23e9b28bde156efe9c8c0fa6745025
It's a small-ish patch, so maybe we could make an allowance
Not sure if it's releated, but installing a master OTA update to my dogfood
flame this morning totally bricked my device. It doesn't boot and ADB doesn't
come up.
I'm going to re-install the base image now and see if I can reproduce.
Best,
Kevin
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From: Kartikaya
I have logs after all, probably a weird cable. I think I'm seeing the seeing
the same issue as bug 1075401, so not related to the APZ issue.
Best,
Kevin
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From: Kevin Grandon kgran...@mozilla.com
To: Kartikaya Gupta kgu...@mozilla.com
Cc: mozilla-dev
The main issues I have noticed with the v180 base image are pretty bad.
1 - No fonts when we had previous base images which had fonts bundled.
2 - Engineering apps are installed by default - this is not ideal for end users
because a lot of them can not be removed.
I think that these are P1
...@gmail.com
To: Kevin Grandon kgran...@mozilla.com
Cc: Asa Dotzler a...@mozilla.com, mozilla-dev-...@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 11:01:28 AM
Subject: Re: [b2g] Please update your Flame to the new base image
But Kevin, Flame devices are not intended for end users, actually as a base
Hi,
This is currently being tracked here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1070830
It seems a lot of people still rely on this environment, so I'll try to get
someone looking at it this week. We might want to see if in the meantime we can
use aurora or beta.
Best,
Kevin
-
Hi Alive,
This sounds good to me. Looking at the pull request, it looks like we have yet
additional API wrappers only living in the system app, which I would prefer to
avoid if possible. I would like to first see if we can augment the settings
API, and if we do something in gaia, I think we
Let's take this to a bug. I've filed one to track this here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1070830
Best,
Kevin
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From: Kumar Rishav rishav...@gmail.com
To: SPorwal shraddhapor...@gmail.com
Cc: mozilla-dev-...@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Sunday, September
We now have a fully-functioning air.mozilla.org channel to upload videos or
host meetings. Currently we just have a few of the weekly gaia engineering
meetings listed there, and will continue to record these into the future. You
can find the channel here:
: Dietrich Ayala auton...@gmail.com
To: Kevin Grandon kgran...@mozilla.com
Cc: dev-b2g dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org, dev-gaia
dev-g...@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:01:32 PM
Subject: Re: New air.mozilla channel for FirefoxOS videos/meetings
That's awesome, thanks Kevin
Since today's uplift, B2G emulator dep builds (regular per-push builds) are
running and passing tests. However, *nightly* builds are a sea of orange. So
this mostly likely comes down to build config differences between dep builds
and nightly builds.
Aurora is closed until the cause of this is
Thanks Johan!
Very nice dashboard, and great presentation today.
Best,
Kevin
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From: Johan Lorenzo jlore...@mozilla.com
To: dev-g...@lists.mozilla.org, dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:11:13 PM
Subject: [Follow up] B2G smoketests dashboard
that to be Nightly everywhere, since it probably has a better
chance of running at any given point than Firefox 3 versions back.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Kevin Grandon kgran...@mozilla.com wrote:
It's never been officially supported, but we try to fix it when possible :)
We need tests, but we also
Sounds good to me. This is actually exactly what we do for the home screen. We
have two different profiles, one with 'high' capabilities, and one with 'low'.
Low capability devices are defined with anything less than 512mb of memory.
Having a tree closure in the last week to FL is super painful. It certainly
adds a lot of risk to the vertical homescreen and other features.
What is the criteria to get the tree re-opened? Is it resolving all of the
mentioned bugs?
Best,
Kevin
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From: Anthony
@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 8:56:17 AM
Subject: Re: [b2g] Smoketest Regressions on Trunk are Out of Control
On 03/06/14 17:39, Kevin Grandon wrote:
Having a tree closure in the last week to FL is super painful. It certainly
adds a lot of risk to the vertical homescreen and other features
Just wanted to send a note to let you know that current trunk is broken, so
maybe avoid updating gecko for a little bit. I've been pinged a few times
offline and didn't see an update, so thought it'd make sense to notify everyone.
A fix is in the works and is being tracked in bug 957086.
Best,
Could you potentially use mozAlarms to wake your app up in case it gets closed?
This is what we do for calendar to synchronize events with the server.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/WebAPI/Alarm
Best,
Kevin
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From: porschekoe...@googlemail.com
To:
What response do you see when you navigate to this in the browser app?
Localhost could be giving you some problems ;-)
Best,
Kevin
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From: Santosh Shingare cherishsant...@gmail.com
To: mozilla-dev-...@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 12:14:06 PM
Subject:
+1. If you follow any kind of social media you'll know we've been getting
slammed over poor support for updating certain devices. The more power we have
over this the better.
Regarding moving apps from certified - privileged, I think this will be a big
win and will allow us to move quite a few
Thanks for the reminder David. I think it would definitely help sheriffs and
our tree if we all followed these backout procedures. Gaia moves extremely
fast, and we often see conflicts when backing things out. Gaia developers are
probably the best suited to handle these conflicts.
We can
Just sending out an update in case you're not following the bug. The tree is
still closed - ouch. We have been fixing tests, and handling the npm timeout
issue. The last remaining issue is a mystery gecko regression that causes tests
to stop running, and travis to timeout. This comment from
Just saw that this was sent to dev-b2g when it is likely more relevant to
dev-gaia.
Also - I thought we were merging these lists anyway?
Best,
Kevin
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From: Jonathan Griffin jgrif...@mozilla.com
To: dev-b2g dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014
This is amazing! This will save us tons of time debugging and testing, thanks
for the effort!
Also for devs who like git, I always push to try using moz-git-tools, and it
makes it super easy (never need to tough HG).
https://github.com/mozilla/moz-git-tools
Best,
Kevin
- Original
+1 to killing all the errors. It may be nice if some day our core apps, could
run in other environments, but I think that is such a low priority that a
single css error in the logs should trump all of that.
-Kevin
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From: Fabrice Desré fabr...@mozilla.com
To: Julien
Most of our apps don't, but browser, camera, gallery, and video should support
landscape mode to an extent. Nice going media apps :) Now let's catch up with
the rest of them.
Best,
Kevin
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From: Julien Wajsberg jwajsb...@mozilla.com
To: A. Crespo
Hey Guys,
Can anyone provide details on hardware composer? I'm having to provide quite a
bit of support for people (just telling people that they need to disable the
preference when things get crazy).
It seems to behave pretty poorly on the helix and keon devices. Any information
I can relay
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To: Kevin Grandon kgran...@mozilla.com
Cc: Dev B2G List dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:57:29 PM
Subject: Re: [b2g] Details on hardware composer?
I can help you out. Is there anything in specific you’d like to know?
What kind of problems are seen in helix
I'm not really sure how the mirroring works, but all of our work is done on
github and mirrored over to HG. I can tell that most of those branches on HG
look to be old feature branches, that are no longer needed. So perhaps we're
missing the part where we prune removed branches in github?
So Tim had some concern for having a gaia only channel. If we do merge to
dev-fxos, then all of this would happen over dev-fxos (and people who normally
focus on platform features may get a lot of email that they aren't necessarily
interested in).
I am personally ok to receiving more FxOS
I don't have much to add except this seems like much better syntax than what we
are forced to do in Chrome for layer promotion (adding -webkit-transform:
translateZ(0); for example).
As long as there is some path forward for the open web I'm happy with it. Are
we not going to prefix it with
an empty list of networks when called on b2g
desktop.
Best,
Kevin
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From: Dale Harvey d...@arandomurl.com
To: Jonathan Watt jw...@jwatt.org
Cc: Kevin Grandon kgran...@mozilla.com, dev-b2g
dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org, mozilla-dev-...@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Wednesday
can also tie this stuff into
travis/TBPL and run gaia ui tests on different consumers of `desktop` targets
to ensure things don't break.
Please let me know if you have any concerns/questions.
Best,
Kevin Grandon
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Hi,
This is currently being tracked here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896523 Looks like there hasn't
been a recent update, but I'll try to track down Paul and ask nicely :)
In the meantime you can try using dump() statements to log to standard out, or
launching the SMS app
Additionally this would be really nice to have for select elements:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649849
We currently have some really nasty workarounds for this in gaia.
-Kevin
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From: Ismael González igonzaleznico...@gmail.com
To: B2G Dev List
Yeah, pointer events definitely seem like the winner in the long term. For now,
I would imagine that we'll be using touch events in gaia apps for a few reasons:
1 - It helps with testing.
2 - It should be more performant on the devices because we don't need to
provide shims.
3 - They'll work on
It appears that there actually is a semi-working Japanese keyboard if you
enable the keyboard.layouts.japanese setting.
It looks like a solid start, but needs a bit of polish before we could enable
it for production looks like.
-Kevin
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From: Mounir Lamouri
for their platform products. She is
quite technical and hands-on as well as a great mentor building winning teams.
Bob Moss, James Lal, Kevin Grandon and I have all had the pleasure of working
with her on multiple projects seeing her deliver quality products.
She will initially be managing
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navigate to individual apps via domain. E.g., calendar.gaiamobile.org,
or communications.gaiamobile.org.
There's also a plugin which will make the system app work:
https://github.com/KevinGrandon/Firefox-OS-Runtime/
Best,
Kevin Grandon
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From: wiratama dc wiratama
Initially I would start only with building blocks, and expand as possible. The
primary action and media icon sets are probably the place to start. These
are all flat icons and would be good candidates for an icon font.
This would give us ~100 icons and should cover almost all of building
for components/apps which should take advantage of the icon font. I'd
love to hear what you guys think of this approach.
Thanks,
Kevin Grandon
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