> On 5 Feb 2016, at 09:52, David Rajchenbach-Teller <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----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).
Good point; I hadn’t considered this - even more complexity to the mix ;-) > >> >> 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*. Me too. > > 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. Thanks for the discussion, David/Gabriele. So I will wait on doing any rebranding/major changes until I get more clarity on this. But I don’t think this will stop me from starting to job of moving FxOS-specific APIs and apps content to under the Firefox OS zone. We’ll start work on that, as we’ve wantedto do that for a while, to improve overall clarity of our Web docs. _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
