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    The MMS lost story

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      • jezekJ Offline
        jezek
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        Failed MMS redownload progress report:

        Updated PR's:

        • nutium - Rebased to latest xenial + commits to make recovery of messages with unexpected errors during handling (phone/services crashes) more robust. The nuntium-inject-push tool was updated so it can simulate various errors. I've tried to test all possible error situations that came to my mind, found and fixed some flaws and I hope I didn't introduce any more errors. I will make more tests after I clear the last unsolved TODO (excluding testing & documentation TODOs) which was added by me.
        • messaging-app - Rebased to latest xenial.
        • telephony-service - Rebased to latest xenial (jekins still can't builf for armhf due to some test error which I think/hope is not my fault).

        jEzEk

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        • jezekJ Offline
          jezek
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          Failed MMS redownload progress report:

          During cleanup I found a small issue. During nuntium initialization I start dbus listeners to listen to redownload or read/delete requests for messages in storage, but telepathy didn't spawn listeners for these. It's not a big issue, redownload still works, but read/delete requests from messaging-app don't come through to nuntium and that leads to polluted storage. I've tried to fix it, but today I broke something, so no new commits until I fix and test. I hope this is the last issue, that needs to be solved before reviews starts.

          jEzEk

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          • jezekJ Offline
            jezek
            last edited by

            Failed MMS redownload progress report:

            I've fixed the issue I found last week, but haven't tested it fully yet (so no commits). I will continue the cleanup, to start review process and inform you here on any progress.

            jEzEk

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            • jezekJ Offline
              jezek
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              Failed MMS redownload progress report:

              This week only nuntium PR got updates. I've tested message handling and initialization and fixed some bugs I found. Then cleaned the code of my own TODO comments and debug logs. The documentation got updated to more reflect current state and some info that may be helpful was added.

              The last thing (I hope) to do in nuntium PR is to update debian changelog, which brings me to a question about versioning.

              The last version in changelog is 1.4+ubports1. This suggests, that the project has adopted semantic versioning system, which suggest to bump up major version if API backward compatibility is broken, bump up minor version if some new API is added, or bump up patch version otherwise. I've broken the API backward compatibility in the PR, so we should change the version to 2.0. But (there is always a but) I plan to make additional work on the nuntium project and there is a possibility, the API will change again. Therefore I suggest one of these:

              1. Change version to 2.0 and if API changes in future bump to 3.0, etc.
              2. Change version to 2.0, with some suffix that would suggest, that the API may change in near time (something like 2.0.0-alpha+ubportsX).
              3. Rewrite changes that we can bump only the minor version to 1.5 (there is no way to not add to the API and preserve the minor version). This would take the most effort and even more to guarantee the same behavior for all API functions. I really don't want to walk down this path.
              4. Don't bother with versioning, leave it as it is, nobody uses our nuntium packages.

              I would vote for no. 2.

              Note: I'm talking here about the nuntium go packages API (storage, telepathy, mms, ofono), The nuntium dbus API is backward compatible.

              Side question: Where do you define the version?

              Note: I'm really don't know who to ask these questions, so I add some names here, to attract attention. @lduboeuf @dobey @Flohack

              jEzEk

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              • flohackF Offline
                flohack @jezek
                last edited by

                @jezek So if I understand it right ubports1 was added since we are/were not the upstream for that project. Technically speaking you normally would not do such changes on the fork, and ubports1 can only be incremented to ubports2, whenever we add cosmetic patches etc.

                But since we are probably now the upstream already, as Canonical dropped everything, we could remove the ubportsxy suffix and just bump to 2.0 as you explained. But please ask the developers in the Developer Telegram group, I am not heading the transition to 20.04 and some new rules might be in effect already.

                My languages: πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ή πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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                • lduboeufL Offline
                  lduboeuf @jezek
                  last edited by lduboeuf

                  @jezek
                  I would start making the PR ready for review before the versioning question, The maintainer should know what to do there when it will be merged

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                  • dobeyD Offline
                    dobey @jezek
                    last edited by

                    @jezek said in The MMS lost story:

                    The last thing (I hope) to do in nuntium PR is to update debian changelog, which brings me to a question about versioning.

                    I would say, don't worry about this for now. Our CI automatically includes timestamps and git revision when building, so when people are proposing changes to one of our repos, they do not need to mess with the debian changelog.

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                    • jezekJ Offline
                      jezek @lduboeuf
                      last edited by

                      @dobey said in The MMS lost story:

                      I would say, don't worry about this for now. Our CI automatically includes timestamps and git revision when building, so when people are proposing changes to one of our repos, they do not need to mess with the debian changelog.

                      And what about the semantic versioning?

                      @lduboeuf said in The MMS lost story:

                      I would start making the PR ready for review before the versioning question, The maintainer should know what to do there when it will be merged.

                      Yop, will do, after the accompanying PRs are review ready. Or I don't need to wait? I bet the nuntium review will demand some commit squashing and some explaining. I changed/added a lot of code compared to the other PRs.

                      jEzEk

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                      • dobeyD Offline
                        dobey @jezek
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                        @jezek said in The MMS lost story:

                        And what about the semantic versioning?

                        If there's issues with versioning, in that respect, we'll deal with them when migrating the repos to GitLab for supporting 20.04 and having upstream releases (version tags in the repo, so distros can package from them).

                        Yop, will do, after the accompanying PRs are review ready. Or I don't need to wait? I bet the nuntium review will demand some commit squashing and some explaining. I changed/added a lot of code compared to the other PRs.

                        If there are other PRs in other repos also needed for this, it would be best to propose them all at the same time, so you can link in the description to the other needed PRs, and in what order they need to merge/build. If you have some messy commit history, it is generally best to clean up commit history before hand, indeed.

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                        • jezekJ Offline
                          jezek
                          last edited by

                          Failed MMS redownload progress report:

                          This week folowing PRs got update:

                          • telepathy-ofono - pushed changes I forgot to push last week πŸ˜• , clean code from my debug logs.
                          • history-service - clean code from my debug logs

                          Right now I'm writing some tests for telephony-service code I introduced for error message redownload. It's fun, cause I don't know anything about writing tests using qt/c++ and I'm learning new stuff while struggling.

                          jEzEk

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                          • jezekJ Offline
                            jezek
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                            Failed MMS redownload progress report:

                            Ok, I admit defeat in the telephony-service testing battle. I've written some code, to test the redownload function, but I couldn't make the tests run. The crossbuilder don't run test. I've read, that I have to run crossbuilder shell to access the container and run tests, but I failed to do so. In the container, I've tried dh_auto_test command, which hangs. I've tried to run a test executable, but it said, that the executable can't be executed. As last resort I copied the project to my phone and tried to run the tests executables there. But I think, the tests need to be run in some special way, cause I didn't manage to run them, so they will pass. I don't know how long will it take me to figure out the test, so I've decided to create an issue and return to them later.

                            With the tests skipping, everything is ready for review. These are the PRs for this project:

                            • https://github.com/ubports/nuntium/pull/8
                            • https://github.com/ubports/telepathy-ofono/pull/20
                            • https://github.com/ubports/history-service/pull/35
                            • https://github.com/ubports/messaging-app/pull/260
                            • https://github.com/ubports/telephony-service/pull/20

                            jEzEk

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                            • mardyM Offline
                              mardy @jezek
                              last edited by mardy

                              Hi Jezek,

                              Ok, I admit defeat in the telephony-service testing battle. I've written some code, to test the redownload function, but I couldn't make the tests run. The crossbuilder don't run test.

                              as a matter of fact, crossbuilder always runs the tests when not cross-building. In other words, if the target architecture is the same as the host architecture, tests will be run. I tried now with telephony-service in my PC and tests are run (and pass), in the xenial branch.

                              Just run

                              crossbuilder --architecture=amd64
                              

                              on your branch and you should see the tests being executed.

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                              • jezekJ Offline
                                jezek @mardy
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                                @mardy Thank you, will try. One defeat doesn't mean, I (we) can't win at the end.

                                jEzEk

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                                • lduboeufL Offline
                                  lduboeuf
                                  last edited by lduboeuf

                                  Hi, as @UniSuperBox said on last Q&A , the feature is ready for testing:

                                  You need to be on devel or RC ( since 2021/06/09 )
                                  From a terminal, run that commands one by one:

                                  sudo ubports-qa install PR_nuntium_8
                                  sudo ubports-qa install telepathy-ofono 20
                                  sudo ubports-qa install history-service 35
                                  sudo ubports-qa install telephony-service 20
                                  sudo ubports-qa install messaging-app 260

                                  And reboot

                                  Test Plan example:
                                  Make sure it works as before, send/receive MMS, multiple ones
                                  Disable cellular-data, receive a MMS and check if MMS notification is here with the download button
                                  Change proxy settings in APN or put wrong settings and check for notification reception

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                                    domubpkm @lduboeuf
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                                    @lduboeuf Technically, there is nothing to prevent from doing it on the most recent RC if you don't want to switch (again) to dev ?

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                                    • lduboeufL Offline
                                      lduboeuf @domubpkm
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                                      @domubpkm it should be good on RC too. Last builds are from one week or two.

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                                      • lduboeufL Offline
                                        lduboeuf
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                                        @jezek

                                        Did some test this morning, i have a use case where the message is staying in the "pending state" ( so we can't click redownload button anymore ) even after reboot. It is with bad signal and by putting wrong info in MMS settings
                                        In history db the message is x-ubports-nuntium-mms-error-activate-context but the status is still in Pending state

                                        nunitum logs:
                                        2021/06/11 09:15:26 Trying to set Active property to true for context on true /ril_0/context2
                                        2021/06/11 09:15:26 Cannot set Activate to true (try 1/3) interface on /ril_0/context2: org.ofono.Error.NotAttached: GPRS is not attached
                                        2021/06/11 09:15:32 Failed to activate for /ril_0/context2 : failed to activate context
                                        2021/06/11 09:15:32 Cannot activate ofono context: no context available to activate

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                                        • jezekJ Offline
                                          jezek @lduboeuf
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                                          @lduboeuf It seems you found a bug. You should fill an issue. I have some idea, where the problem is and I will elaborate under the issue. This is a veeery long thread and I don't want to make it any longer. We should close it.

                                          Is the bug a big bug? Can we deploy to stable with this bug, or we need to fix it before deploying? Because there is a bigger issue here. I don't have time now to do any work on ubuntu touch due to personal and technical issues. And it will not change (at least) this month.

                                          jEzEk

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                                          • lduboeufL Offline
                                            lduboeuf @jezek
                                            last edited by lduboeuf

                                            @jezek I don't think that issue is a blocker as it may come in rare situations and moreover will end with the same situation than it is today ( just ask user to send it again). I wll look if i can work around that on messaging app.

                                            Yes agree for this thread becoming too long. I would add it in a nuntium PR instead of an issue since it is not merge yet.

                                            Hope you will recover soon :). Btw i bet this will not land on OTA-18. Not enough feedback from users and big code base πŸ™‚

                                            [Edit]: not possible to work around it on messaging-app

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                                              rocket2nfinity
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                                              Not sure if this is still needed, but latest ubports email said to test.

                                              Fixes MMS perfectly on Nexus 6P

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