Closed Bug 796626 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Settings app should be able to show an indentifier for Gonk

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Settings, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(tracking-b2g:backlog)

RESOLVED WONTFIX
tracking-b2g backlog

People

(Reporter: ghtobz, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [label:settings])

[GitHub issue by jhford on 2012-09-11T22:14:58Z, https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/issues/4582] Currently, Gaia shows me the commit gaia is built on. This is really nice, but it'd be great if Gaia could also show the version of Gecko that the phone uses. The way that the release process is likely going to work is going to create a snapshot of all of the gonk repositories. It'd be nice to display the source info for Gaia as well as the version of Gecko and Gonk. I would like to work on this fix. My plan is to do something similar to how Gaia currently shows the gaia commit, except that I'd like to generalize the "show this bit of information based on file system contents" problem.
[GitHub comment by nhirata on 2012-09-11T23:36:26Z] the default.xml file contains that information... this would definitely be a nice to have in terms of troubleshooting.
Component: Gaia → Gaia::Settings
Sounds like a good idea, maybe show these info in developer panel?
blocking-b2g: --- → 1.5?
Flags: needinfo?(hhsu)
Needinfo Omega as he is the UX owner for Settings.
Flags: needinfo?(hhsu) → needinfo?(ofeng)
The bug was filed long time ago. We need to confirm what information need to be displayed before having a UX spec. As gecko and gonk do not use git for tracking, it may not be appropriate placing the information under the git commit info section. Eric, do you think it is possible getting the commit hash of gonk and gecko from gaia?
Flags: needinfo?(echou)
We have a "Platform version" in the device information showing Gecko version. So this bug now reduced to "indentifier for Gonk". I do not know what does that means. Eric should be able to comment. Triage: backlog, very nice to have.
blocking-b2g: 1.5? → backlog
Summary: Settings app should be able to show the version of Gecko being used and an indentifier for Gonk → Settings app should be able to show an indentifier for Gonk
Maybe "Base version" "AOSP 4.4" ?
(In reply to Arthur Chen [:arthurcc] from comment #4) > The bug was filed long time ago. We need to confirm what information need to > be displayed before having a UX spec. As gecko and gonk do not use git for > tracking, it may not be appropriate placing the information under the git > commit info section. > > Eric, do you think it is possible getting the commit hash of gonk and gecko > from gaia? I don't think we need to do this extra work to let developers know gecko version because we've already had "Build Identifier" on developer page. The Build Identifier can point out which package is used for this device. To me it's sufficient for us to know which version is used for each module by looking up the manifest.xml. As for Gonk version, from a technical perspective, Gecko can get the Android version we are based on. However, I don't know if it's appropriate to create an API for Gaia to get this information(maybe Feature Detection API?) and if this information is that useful.
Flags: needinfo?(echou)
Flags: needinfo?(ofeng)
looks like a wontfix
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
blocking-b2g: backlog → ---
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