Hi folks, After the recent announcements, it seems there is quite a lot of people interested in continuing FxOS. We are gathering ideas and people there: - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/firefoxos_is_not_dead (for ideas and listing people that are interested in FxOS). Please write your name here if you want to be part of this! - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/firefox_is_not_dead-brainstorming (more a draft/brainstorming pad) - we also have a discourse https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/firefox-os-is-not-dead-on-smartphones-gathering-people-and-ideas/7088/2 (not very active at the moment) - And of course, this mailing-list and the IRC chan, until Mozilla makes things clearer.
These hadn't been posted here yet. That's now done. Thanks to whoever created these pads and discourse! Above all, we are waiting for Mozilla to explain how they will sunset MoCo implication in FxOS. What follows are my personal questions/opinions about it. These questions may not have immediate answers of course, but hopefully they'll help us going forward: - Technically, being Tier3 means we need to depend a lot less on gecko and be a lot more like regular websites. Do current devs have a plan for that? Will Mozilla help us in this process (by keeping some people on the project for this, with technical advice etc...)? - What about test infrastructure, will Mozilla continue to provide them? - About the docs: will we keep our space on MDN? I do think we should keep it (Chris WDYT?) - About the ML and IRC chan: I do think we should also keep them. IoT devs not related to FxOS can have their #iot chan and iot-dev ML, WDYT? - What happens to owners and reviewers? Will they continue to review and land? Same question for write access to the different repos? - More largely: how will evolve the governance of the project? In short, it'd be nice if we can avoid a fork (ie if Mozilla does not throw away all smartphone code in next version) and keep our repo, it'd be nice if we still have some support (infrastructure, ML, MDN space, reviewing time etc...) at least for some time (I mean, more than 6 months). You owe us this one, Mozilla ;-) We've been told their would be "plans" for this transition, now let's make them :-) Cheers! :autra _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
