notes from Apps Engineering meeting, 2012-05-01 9:00am PT (16:00 UTC)

[Bill Walker]

notes from Apps Engineering meeting, 2012-05-01 9:00am PT (16:00 UTC)

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TASKS

April 24 - Firefox 14 Merge to Aurora

* convert our api tests to mochitests [felipe]
STATUS: has been reviewed, will land this week, can uplift to aurora
STATUS: ON TRACK FOR FF15 (missed FF14)


April 30 - Planning for Firefox 15

* create complete first draft of Apps security/permissions model [sicking, ladamski]
STATUS: ON TRACK
TODO: continue discussion and finalize draft

May 3 - Planning for Firefox 15

* decide whether or not to include WebRT desktop in FF14 [myk]
STATUS: ON TRACK; the answer is probably "no"

* define desktop, mobile, and persona.org Firefox 15 user experience for client-side interaction with AITC [jarguello]
STATUS: AT RISK
Diane is helping define the requirements and experience of apps management for K9o.
Watch for her to ask for feedback from engineering.

* define desktop user experience for WebRT deskop "phase 2" K9o[jarguello]
NOTE: includes the dashboard at persona.org/apps
STATUS: ON TRACK
Diane is helping define the requirements and experience and she'll be asking for feedback from engineering.

* define the requirements and user experience for WebRT mobile K9o [jarguello]
NOTE: includes the dashboard at persona.org/apps
STATUS: AT RISK
Jen trying to get together with mobile folks, bandwidth is a bit stretched

* finalize requirements for WebRT features for K9o [jarguello]
NOTE: includes the dashboard at persona.org/apps
STATUS: AT RISK
Jen needs a technical contact for Receipts [andym], Manifest [anant], Plugins [?], Popups [?], and register protocol handler support [?]. Can ping Jen offline about this [bwalker]

* do a crowd-source functional analysis of web content for new set of Tier 1 apps [lmandel]
STATUS: ON TRACK
TODO: get further URLs from biz dev [lmandel]
* Done. Received list from Ron. Also gathered requirements from Martin (games), Irina (market insights), and waiting on input from pr
TODO: establish new due date [lmandel]
* Will publish screenshot comparison or top sites and CSS compat research this week
* Targeting Fennec beta (tentatively May 4) for launch of crowd sourced based functional testing effort


May 29 - services-central merge to mozilla-central for Firefox 15 Merge to Aurora

* implement automated unit tests for AITC [harald, anant, gps]
Greg building mock server; coordinating with Harald
STATUS: ON TRACK

* complete AitC client development [anant; ian, harald]
STATUS:updated AITC client and browserID patches awaiting review
browserID module patch AT RISK due to concerns from Gavin (objection to the whole idea?)
TODO: find out when and what review we will get from Gavin


June 5 - Firefox 15 Merge to Aurora

* complete work for receipt reissue [myk, bwalker]
Ian has proposed a new API for replaceReceipt()
TODO: need owner for mozApps work [bwalker, myk]
TODO: need owner for marketplace integration [bwalker, myk]


* WebRT Phases 1 and 2 for Fennec 15 [mfinkle]
STATUS: AT RISK
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fennec-apps-ux-bugs

* implement AITC privacy policy assent flow [bwalker, anant]
BLOCKED on k9o requirements and UX tasks
STATUS: AT RISK

* implement AppCache for Apps FOR FF15 [sicking]
STATUS: AT RISK
TODO: sicking to create bug to track this issue
TODO: sicking to identify owner during his absence (bent?)

* Implement permissions model for Apps [sicking]
Depends on ladamski's security/permissions proposal
STATUS: AT RISK

* write k9o testplans for client and marketplace work [tchung, jsmith, aaronmt]
STATUS: ON TRACK
* Task needs to be retargeted and broken down
* Let's go with tasks:
---> Desktop WebRT Test Plan (On Track) [jsmith]
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Web_Apps_integration/TestPlan
---> Android WebRT Test Plan (On Track)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Web_Apps_integration/TestPlan
---> Client AITC Test Plan (Not Started)
Not Started
* Need to sync up with Anant on Current Implementation
---> k9o test strategy for apps and marketplace (On Track)
----------> Open questions from Ragavan and other PMs need to be addressed here (https://etherpad.mozilla.org/kilimanjaro-qa-questions)


June 21 - Marketplace Release

* Create production Mozilla Marketplace App using WebRT desktop [mardak]
STATUS: ON TRACK

* complete a security review of Apps [rforbes, dchan]
STATUS: ON TRACK
TODO: complete code reviews for security
TODO: dchan to complete review of AitC

* implement a coherent set of app manifest validators
STATUS: ON TRACK
TODO: discuss with morgamic to own appmanifest.org [bwalker]
TODO: update manifest validators [moz-central, marketplace, http://appmanifest.org/] to validate the new manifest items
TODO: identify Marketplace developer to update marketplace validator [bwalker]


Untargeted

* make final decision on how to get Marketplace on Android [rags]
STATUS: AT RISK
It did turn out to be risky as suspected. Still working on revising the proposal, no new update here.

* NEW get text of AITC privacy policy [bwalker, jishnu]
STATUS: NOT STARTED
TODO: figure out when we need this by