On 10/07/2015 01:56 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> On 10/07/2015 03:46 PM, Fabrice Desré wrote:
>> Because master's quality is not where it should be. I've been using
>> nightlies of Firefox desktop for years and it's vastly better than
>> what we have on Firefox OS.
>
> That's not an apples-to-apples comparison, since (as far as I know)
> developers land to mozilla-inbound, not mozilla-central.
Are you arguing for a gaia-inbound? That was consistently pushed back by
gaia-ers.
>> it's ridiculous that we have a web based OS but can't update it with
>> a web like cadence.
>
> How does being "web based" determine release cadence? The complexity of
> the project seems to be a much more reliable indicator of the ideal
> release cadence, and I think it's safe to say that Firefox OS is more
> complicated than most websites.
I disagree. Each app in isolation (except probably the system app) is
not more complex that big websites. We should be able to update them
almost per commit when there's no platform dependency.
>> Short term we'll set up another "no smoketest blocker" weekly
>> channel, but longer term we absolutely need to reach a quality level
>> similar to desktop.
>
> That sounds a lot like an inbound -> central model to me, so I don't see
> why that's not a viable long term solution too.
It's different. A "smoketest blocker only" branch is more like an aurora
branch where we limit the backported fixes. I agree that if it's working
well enough we may keep it longer.
Fabrice
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Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation
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