-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 04/02/16 18:38, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > On 04/02/2016 12:08, Chris Mills wrote: >> Please give me your comments/ideas/worries about this — obviously >> I want to collect a good amount of feedback and make sure the >> community likes the direction I am going in with the docs, before >> making any major decisions. > > Regarding the FxOS-specific parts that are known to be > discontinued (marketplace, etc...) I agree that archival is the > best option. > > For the rest and specifically the build instructions, tech docs, > etc... I think it would be best to wait until we have some clarity > about what we'll do with the actual components. > > If the existing code can be streamlined and moved forward so that > it becomes a toolkit for others to build their own web-based OSes > on top - possibly with default apps taken out of gaia - then that > material will be important, and it will be paramount that we update > it if we want the project to be contributed to and actively > developed. This would obviously imply that we need to "de-brand" > all the relevant pages since it won't be called Firefox OS anymore > as you point out in your document.
One can even thing of splitting Gaia (whose existence can be justified without Firefox OS) from Gonk + Gecko (which can, as you mention, be used as a platform for experimenting with alternative web-based OSes). > > If on the other hand we're just dropping everything and walking > away then there would be no point in maintaining it as nobody will > be able to pick up the project without help and support from within > Mozilla. I certainly hope that we're not dropping *everything*. For one thing, I heard people mentioning home-grown projects based on Firefox OS. I don't know where they are heading, and yes we probably need to debrand it back to Browser OS or something such, but they will still need the documentation if they want to go anywhere. For a second thing, we're still working on Firefox OS for SmartTV, right? So we sill need documentation (among other things). Finally, I'm waiting a little to see if our Innovation Process doesn't come up with new ideas of things to do with the Firefox OS codebase. In other words, I agree with your earliest suggestion to wait until we have some clarity. Cheers, David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWtHD7AAoJEHq2/ZaQOjc7jWYP/3d9JFNuPEhWqoUh4RQl/RVV ZoUtLLLBLuJvF136zK3RRJnPLRRLTjw2mf4HteDrvfS4qtnHoSjlTJnidHuD/7Xb fh8Hg3clOTiI9rTDvZ9Tk1jjkElXJBLCZCsjo+QBauw/04Y/RajWoN4q97O5QJRP 6AxI4NTAC5nGAdOVutvm0ZxqndM3VNmaLEb1bn0+jdIafwxZPz4e9BfjifafZQM4 pkKhifbUWTeDhXt+GCnFHea8rb1ra+C8GI/xOFCwKO9zSgC25Zl8P5TCpdxvwn9u CyjxjdMD7seOf1s1P/tP3DZPHfhnj4ujn+l2cBB+1DRI+JlEhf+9oCHoY1fl0i2z eMYFmeaCsUYkg3EU/4sboXLlrUCek5cLFZPomJ4Ibud0wOo+4jAdGcFctdvMso45 KN6x/B2FbUVEJ3vluUunee1hIDTLlNi2nc39ApGPoJeBBvmFvjL7N5/DAsZkoSOJ GNC7q3MfZXBCVqMS2WddZ8N8DPlXq01us0qnmtDIeg7soD3Dv6k5Lf0chkjuZgJN o64SW9YzDtg/vrPBKaM6QszBToD10Nbf4nehCnBXzzOAG+obNtRKDiDUw1veT6D7 lTuwP2sS4zuprQqUyCGosKKl9REvV3QmpYMyEisTgjcYDryXBKY1m4XHZo98yaGz t7w1ELIshNYpyPC3W+EH =u+jW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
