Intent to land: Voice/video client ("Loop")

[Adam Roach]

Summary:

The Loop project aims to create a user-visible real-time communications
service for existing Mozilla products, leveraging the WebRTC platform.
One version of the client will be integrated with Firefox Desktop. It is
intended to be interoperable with a Firefox OS application (not part of
Gaia) that will be shipped by a third party on the Firefox OS 2.0 platform.

The implementation of the client has already reached a proof-of-concept
stage in a set of github repositories. This announcement of intent is
being sent in advance of integration into the mozilla-central
repositories. This integration will be a two-step process. The first
step, which has already taken place, is to land the existing
implementation in the Elm tree to validate proper integration into the
RelEng systems. After testing, the code will be merged into m-c, and
subsequent development will take place in the m-i/m-c trees.

The code is currently controlled by the MOZ_LOOP preprocessor
definition, which is only enabled for Nightly builds. The feature will
iterate on Nightly until it is considered complete enough to ride the
trains out.


For more details:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/WebRTC
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/05/29/experimenting-with-webrtc-in-firefox-nightly/

Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=loop_mlp

Link to standard: N/A

Platform coverage: Firefox on Desktop.

Estimated or target release: Firefox 33 or 34 (33 is a stretch goal for
the team, 34 is a committed date).

Preference behind which this will be implemented: For initial landing on
Nightly, none. Will be behind "loop.enabled" before riding the trains.

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Adam Roach
Principal Platform Engineer
a...@mozilla.com
+1 650 903 0800 x863

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Adam Roach <a...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Link to standard: N/A

I take it this means there's no web-exposed API?


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[Adam Roach]

On 5/30/14 10:14, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Adam Roach <a...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> Link to standard: N/A
> I take it this means there's no web-exposed API?
>
>

That is correct. This is a browser feature, not accessible from content.