Last minutes for Android Tech Leads meeting (September 16)

Hi folks, Monday, September 16 was the final (ultimate!) Android Tech Leads meeting. It's been a long time coming but with the general stability of Mozilla's Android ecosystem leading to fewer big, cross-cutting technical problems and my impending parental leave, it's time to wind down the

Minutes from August 19 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello all, Back from hiatus: Monday two weeks ago was British Columbia Day so the meeting disbanded. The Android Tech Leads met Monday, August 19 to plan to take over the world. Highlights: - Fenix with GeckoView Nightly builds: check out the amazing diagram

Minutes from July 22 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hi Android-related peeps! The Android Tech Leads met on Monday, July 22. We are buoyed by some new faces representing new parts of the Android ecosystem: dexter from the Glean SDK team, mhentges from the releng mobile organization, and rbarker from Firefox Reality. Welcome to the party! The

Minutes from July 10 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello folks, The Android Tech Leads met on Wednesday, July 10. The discussion focused on the following wide open question: "What is our engineering strategy [on mobile] and how do we apply it to specific projects?" There was consensus that there is a split between broad strategic choices,

Minutes from June 26 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello All Hands survivors! Bookkeeping first: the list of lists that I'm distributing these summaries has grown. If your list should *not* be on the list, let me know. The Android Tech Leads met in a bombed-out post-Whistler bunker. The notes

Minutes from May 29 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello regular folks, +Glean team since this is relevant to y'all this week, The Android Tech Leads met Wednesday, May 29 after a two-week gap. The slower cadence acknowledges the number of people in the group who are heads down on critical work and the generally happy place that cross-project

Minutes from May 15 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello folks, The Android Tech Leads met Wednesday, May 15. In recognition of the changing nature of the Android ecosystem work, we're going to meet every second week: most of the big problems have solutions (or sketches for solutions) and there's less ongoing group coordination required. Yay!

Minutes from May 10 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello party people! Countdown to Whistler: it's really soon! The Android Tech Leads met Friday, May 10. Points to surface from the notes : 1. There was an issue in GeckoView’s

Minutes from April 17 Android Tech Leads meeting

Happy Good Friday, everybody! The Android Tech Leads met on Wednesday, April 17, to discuss software and Easter Egg Hunts. Noteworthy: 1. There's work to expose Firefox for Android's Firefox Account authentication state to other Mozilla apps. If you're: - working on an Android App

Minutes from April 12 Android Tech Leads meeting

to +Colin Mark Foster Lee or +Jeff Boek . 4. Finally, there was some discussion of Android-specific asks for the releng organization. Next step is for +Nicholas Alexander to raise that discussion to releng managers. See the notes <https://docs.go

Minutes from April 3 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello folks, Sorry, no theme today: it's time for me to sip a beer and check out for the weekend. An Application Services heavy discussion this week, with two items that I think are broadly of interest: 1. The Rust FxA+Sync 1.5+Push stack will now use whatever Android Component

Minutes from March 20 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello citizens, The Android Tech Leads met on March 20, and the Special Counsel has provided me a detailed Report of that meeting. As you know, I am vested with the power to decide what parts of that report may be disseminated to the (Mozilla) public, and I have so decided: 1. The

Minutes from Mar 6 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello folks, The Android Tech Leads met on Wednesday, March 6. Noteworth topics: 1. Web Extensions are coming to GeckoView-consuming Apps \o/ This will make content-mangling like Reader Mode possible. Please request a bikeshed colour at Bug 1518843

Minutes from Mar 1 Android Tech Leads meeting

Hello citizens, The Android Tech Leads meeting has bumped off the Mobile Tech Leads meeting. ATL is more narrowly focused on Android and will bring together the "next wave" of Android Components and Application Services consumers: the project that must not be named Fenix and Fire TV and others

Minutes from Jan 23 Mobile Tech Leads

Hello folks, The mobile tech leads met on Wednesday, Jan 23 (NA/AU timezones). It was a long discussion with only partial notes . There were two major topics. First, we intend to

Minutes from Dec 12 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hello folks, hope you're all still wearing your festive Hawaiian shirts from sunny Orlando, The mobile tech leads met on Wednesday, Dec 12 (NA/AU timezones). I was speaking a good deal so the notes are incomplete

Minutes from Nov 21 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hello turkey trotters, The turkey trot is a fun run that is a Thanksgiving (both American and Canadian) tradition. Instead, the mobile tech leads went for a quick lap on Wednesday, Nov 21 (NA/EU timezones). You can see the race route covered

Minutes from Nov 14 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hello tiny dancers, The mobile tech leads appeared on stage on Wednesday, Nov 14 (NA/AU timezones). Nobody was wearing a tutu but we were treated to an impromptu interpretative dance: hence today's summary theme! Before the first intermission, the programme

Minutes from Oct 24 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hello folks, The Mobile Tech Leads met on Wednesday, Oct 24 (NA/EU timezones). It was a very brief discussion : I think everybody wanted to concentrate on next week's Hallowe'en costumes.

Re: Minutes from Oct 17 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:43 AM Stefan Arentz wrote: > > > >> >>1. >>2. WebChannels >> >> >>in GeckoView-consuming browser-like Apps. WebChannels are a >>Firefox-specific chome-only

Minutes from Oct 17 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hello fashionistas, The Mobile Tech Leads met on Wednesday, Oct 17 (NA/AU timezones) to walk down the runway. The discussion focused on two things: 1. Work by Thom Chiovoloni

Re: Merging oauth-server into auth-server

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:33 PM Vlad Filippov wrote: > Hi all, > > We are in the process of merging the oauth-server into auth-server[1]. > This has been a proposal for several years now. The best time to do this > was years ago, the second best time is now. > Can we get some discussion of why

Minutes from Oct 10 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hello everybody! The Mobile Tech Leads met on Wednesday, Oct 10 (NA/EU timezones). The discussion focused on three things: 1. Using Necko in non-browser contexts for GeckoView Apps

Minutes from Oct 3 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hello humans (not ghosts -- definitely not ghosts!), I hope you are all preparing your Hallowe'en costumes. We held a Mobile Tech Leads meeting on Wednesday (NA/AU timezones). As mentioned in last week’s summary email

Re: Minutes from Sept 26 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 6:30 AM Stefan Arentz wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:14 PM Nicholas Alexander > wrote: > >> Hello party people (it's Friday!), >> >> We held a Mobile Tech Leads meeting on Wednesday (NA/EU timezones). We >> discussed only o

Minutes from Sept 26 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hello party people (it's Friday!), We held a Mobile Tech Leads meeting on Wednesday (NA/EU timezones). We discussed only one topic: how does Storage and Sync fit into the Android Components ecosystem. The discussion was somewhat "at arm's length" because we did not have the AU representatives

Minutes from Sept 19 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hi folks, We held a Mobile Tech Leads meeting on Tuesday (NA/AU timezones). The discussion was quite a bit broader than previous meetings: - The Lockbox team has kicked off work on

Minutes from Sept 12 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Hi folks, We held a Mobile Tech Leads meeting on Tuesday (NA/EU timezones). My opinionated summary of the discussion : 1. Nobody has a technical path to a standalone Necko library

Minutes from September 7 Mobile Tech Leads Meeting, cross-product Android testing edition

Hi folks, On Friday, September 7, representatives from the android-components (a-c) and product integrity teams met to discuss cross-product Android testing scenarios and strategies. You can read the mostly complete detailed notes

Minutes from August 8 Mobile Tech Leads Meeting, Socorro edition

Hi folks, On Thursday, August 8, James Willcox, Sebastian Kaspari, and I (Nick Alexander) met with William Kahn-Greene and Chris Lonnen to discuss using Socorro/crash-stats to analyse crashes in non-Firefox contexts. You can read the mostly complete detailed notes

Minutes from August 7 Mobile Tech Leads Meeting, Necko edition

Hi folks, On Wednesday, August 7, Matt Miller and I (Nick Alexander) met with Jason Duell and Valentin Gosu to discuss using Necko in non-Gecko contexts. Sadly I was unable to record the discussion, but I was able to take partial notes

Re: Minutes from July 18 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

Mike, Thanks so much for teaching us some things. On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Michael Comella wrote: > Thanks for the updates, Nick – it's interesting to hear what other teams > are doing and how it may affect me. :) One quick thought: > > >> Rust code should be synchronous > > > I

Minutes from July 18 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

We had a Mobile Tech Leads Meeting earlier today (NA/AU timezones). Due to PTO, it was a smaller group than usual. A very brief and opinionated summary of our discussion (from this doc ): 1. *How do we manage

Minutes from July 11 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

We had a Mobile Tech Leads Meeting earlier today (actually, July 11 -- but for some reason my initial email didn't make it to any lists). The very brief and opinionated summary of our discussion (from this doc ):

Re: Bookmark sync improvements in Nightly

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Kit Cambridge wrote: > Hi all, > > Tomorrow's Nightly will include some improvements to how we track > bookmark changes for syncing [1]. I wanted to take some time to > summarize them in this email. > > Previously, Sync listened for

Re: application passwords for 2FA

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Ryan Kelly wrote: > > Hi All, > > > (This was a shower thought that I wanted to write down while it was in > my head - comments welcome, but no action required.) > > In previous discussions of adding two-factor auth to FxA, we've > struggled

Re: What's New in FxA: the Holiday Special

Hi everybody, * There's a public discovery route at [2] that can be used by OpenID > Connect compatible OAuth flows, to avoid hard-coding a bunch of URLs. > Additional OpenID Connect support will be shipping in train-53. > Excellent! I've filed tickets tracking using this well-known file to

Re: Android 6.0 and Auto Backup

+dev-fxacct, since this impacts the mooted Device Manager, and will be of interest. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Michael Comella < michael.l.come...@gmail.com> wrote: > To recount today's Frontend meeting, we briefly spoke about conflict > between Firefox Sync & auto backup. We came up with

Re: 2-Factor Authentication

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Ryan Feeley rfee...@mozilla.com wrote: When you get a chance, please take a look at the proposed user flow diagram. https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/view/833ea3ae-65bc-4b0a-94cb-3290ec27ae85 I’ve added some notes in To Be Determined. Let me know yours

Re: 2-Factor Authentication

Link? And why is this mana (moco internal)? Nick On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Sai Prashanth Chandramouli schandramo...@mozilla.com wrote: Hey Guys, Please check out the mana page for the 2-Factor authentication for FxAccounts. Thanking You, Sai Pc.

Re: Email opt-in

Hi Ryan, others, On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Ryan Feeley rfee...@mozilla.com wrote: Hi all, We’ll soon be adding an email opt-in somewhere in the registration flow of Firefox Accounts. What does email opt-in mean? Does it mean that we allow accounts with no email address that later

Evaluating embedding fxa-content-server on iOS

Hi dev-fxacct, Context: I have been evaluating using an embedded WKWebView to sign in to a Firefox Account for Sync as part of Firefox iOS. I met with shane, zaach, vladikoff, and ckarlof a few weeks ago for preliminary discussions. tl;dr: it basically works and looks pretty good. I have a

Re: encryption keys and the oauth flow

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Kelly rfke...@mozilla.com wrote: On 18/12/2014 04:24, jr conlin wrote: On face, it looks reasonable. I'd introduce a bit of extra nonce to the key generation sequence (otherwise it's conceivable that the master could be derived from enough samples as

Re: A formal Swift FxA client?

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Shane Tomlinson stomlin...@mozilla.com wrote: Nick, I don't have any real desire for the client, I am just interested in its existence. Could this client be extracted from the firefox-ios repo if Mozilla ever decides to write another iOS app? An FxA Swift