[0.13] Planning the next RC

[ide]

@mkonicek is on 0.12 and we'll cut 0.13-rc soon after. Here are the main bugs that are holding up the release:

General:

• ObjC tests are red - @javache looking into it, likely related to this commit
• E2E tests are red - e2e tests failing #3304, pinged @martinbigio

iOS:

• 3D touch breaks the gesture system due to an iOS 9.0 bug we should handle (@nicklockwood and @tadeuzagallo looking): [Gestures] PanResponder blocking child Touchable on 6s and 6s plus #3082

Android:

• ReadableNativeArray is missing, cannot compile: [Android] OnLoad.cpp does not compile on master #3276, @mikearmstrong001 is looking into it
• Reports that the Android UIExplorer has a redbox (need to verify on master but think I encountered this): [Android] TypeError: expected dynamic type 'string', but had type 'int64' #2983
• Example apps crashing on Android (needs verification): Example applications crashing on android  #3289

Infra:

• Packager has a syntax error due to not being transformed in some cases: [PACKAGER] Current master does not successfully start packager. #3262, @martinbigio says fix coming soon
• Test the basic workflow on Windows even if everything doesn't work like the Chrome debugger. After discussing with @mkonicek we're going to start with Windows support being a Community Responsibility and communicate that clearly. The best Windows support is going to come from people developing with RN master and using Windows on a daily basis so if someone wants to step up to the plate we can work with them on that. People are helping in [Windows] Testing master on Windows 10 #3348.
• Rudimentary npm 3 support. We should get things to work even if the state of npm 3 isn't great. I believe there's a huge perf regression (may be fixed!) so most core devs are sticking with npm 2 but if it's not too hard to get npm 3 to be useable let's do that. [npm 3] Get the packager and CLI to work with npm 3 #3317

It would be nice if we could include the AAR/JAR files with the npm distribution but it's not a launch blocker. Perhaps we could do that for 0.13 or 0.14-rc.

I'll take care of drafting the changelog.

[mkonicek]

@ide What is needed for npm 3 support? There's been one fix for npm 3: daba142?

[ide]

@mkonicek I haven't looked into npm 3 at all, but I'm hoping that it will be just one or two fixes for things to start working.

[Sinewyk]

Just saying that the npm3 perf regression (making it almost unuseable) has been fixed in npm https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.3.6 release. It's still a bit slower (by seconds) because it's doing a lot more work, but not by an order of magnitude like before (40-50x slower).

[mikearmstrong001]

#3082 @tadeuzagallo has added a comment, he is looking for repro steps as was unable to recreate

[ide]

Re #3082 you need an actual device with the pressure sensors to repro. Wasn't sure if they have 6s's yet. (If not -- here's something to write in a request ticket :)

[gre]

I'm sorry this might not be the right place but I don't know where else to ask,

When do you guys plan to depend on react 0.14+ so we can write "universal" libraries that depends on react and works both on react-dom and react-native ?

[ide]

@gre it is planned but no ETA: #2985.

[gre]

Thanks :)

[ide]

I only have a Windows 8 VM and it's waiting in line for the Windows 10 upgrade. Opened #3348 so people interested in Windows support can help get it in for the next release.

[mkonicek]

I propose we cut the 0.13 branch now.

Checked with @tadeuzagallo, #3082 is going to take a while, we should cherry-pick it.
Likewise, can cherry-pick Windows-related fixes.

Want to cut the branch now when things are in a good state after the tests and packager fixes from end of last week. There's always a new release every two weeks and we can cherry-pick important fixes into 0.13.

[ide]

Sounds good. From #3348 it sounds like Windows might already work once we publish the 0.13-rc JAR and we can add other features like Chrome debugger support in 0.14 or 0.15.

[ide]

iOS UIExplorer and Android UIExplorer + Movies App (from source) work on 0.13-stable. So we need to build the Android libs, upload them, and then follow up with the people helping test initial Windows support and can release the RC.

[mkonicek]

Good news! :) Just released 0.13.0-rc to npm, CocoaPods and JCenter.

[ide]

Thanks @mkonicek!