> I just wanted to let you know that Mozilla is working hard on a > transition plan for Firefox OS to make the codebase more > maintainable going forward
Is that plan public? How can people help with it? Considering the community is being handed stewardship of it, and are part of Mozilla , they might have valuable input on that plan. On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:37 AM Benjamin Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for this awesome enthusiasm! > > I just wanted to let you know that Mozilla is working hard on a transition > plan for Firefox OS to make the codebase more maintainable going forward > and give the community more of a leading role on smartphones while we > continue to actively work on smart TV and other potential projects. > > More details coming soon, thank you for your patience while we work out > the details. > > Ben > > On 17 February 2016 at 10:33, Augustin Trancart < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >
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