Have time to watch now :) On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:59 PM, George Roter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reminder, this meeting is tomorrow at 18h30 UTC --> join by going to the > Vidyo room at this link: > > > https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=mW6PX3WtirCaaP3ZcC9NyY2Wxjo > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:34 AM, George Roter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> The date that seems best given availability and not overlapping with the >> weekly project call (as someone pointed out to me that Monday does) is... >> >> Thursday March 10th @ 18h30 UTC. >> >> The location is Vidyo here: >> >> https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=mW6PX3WtirCaaP3ZcC9NyY2Wxjo >> >> (George Roter's Vidyo room if you want to search) >> >> For those of you who aren't there, it will be recorded and you can watch >> later. >> >> Regards, >> George >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:52 AM, George Roter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Mozillians, >>> >>> Upfront, my apology that this update is coming later than promised. >>> >>> The purpose of this note is to give you an update on the transition of >>> B2G OS for smartphones (which we’ve known as Firefox OS for smartphones) to >>> a volunteer/contributor community owned, open source project. >>> >>> Let me start with the action: >>> >>> Please fill out this Doodle <http://doodle.com/poll/kt87ims5rscrkkgb> >>> with your availability for the transition project kickoff meeting. >>> >>> Context: >>> >>> As you know, we are ending the development of Firefox OS for >>> smartphones, which includes staff involvement in this project. However, we >>> know that ending staff involvement abruptly would hurt Boot to Gecko (B2G) >>> as an open source project. >>> >>> I’ve watched from the sidelines as some of you have organized efforts to >>> keep B2G for smartphones evolving as an open source project in the years >>> ahead -- this is inspiring. Mozilla will invest some resources now that >>> will support a transition process that sets your volunteer efforts up for >>> success. >>> >>> We are still working out the details -- and want non-staff input -- but >>> we are planning for this investment to be approximately 5-10 staff members >>> (exact details are still being worked out) for the next 4-5 months (again >>> details to be worked through, with your input). Most of this effort would >>> go toward reducing the complexity and ongoing maintenance costs of the B2G >>> code base (more details below). >>> >>> Volunteer community ownership: >>> >>> The Connected Devices leadership team’s priority for this effort is >>> ensuring non-staff ownership coming out of the transition period. As you >>> all know, this means volunteer involvement right now! >>> >>> I have taken on accountability for ensuring this “ownership” transition >>> is done as well as possible within the resource and time constraints. For >>> my own role, this means serving and facilitating a bigger team of staff and >>> volunteers who can come together to make this happen. >>> >>> From a brief analysis by staff, there are a number of important topics >>> to be discussed and decisions to be made: >>> >>> 1. >>> >>> Determining the relationship between the B2G OS for smartphones >>> project and Mozilla moving forward >>> 2. >>> >>> Code transition specifics >>> 3. >>> >>> Governance >>> 4. >>> >>> Mentoring/get information to volunteer leaders/contributors >>> 5. >>> >>> Build and test infrastructure >>> >>> >>> This is a big set of topics already, and there may be more. Identifying >>> these and making decisions will require staff and volunteers working >>> together in the months ahead. >>> >>> To get this started, I’m organizing an open B2G OS for smartphones >>> transition kick-off meeting. If you’re interested in guiding this project >>> in the months ahead, please fill out this Doodle >>> <http://doodle.com/poll/kt87ims5rscrkkgb> with your availability for >>> this meeting. >>> >>> This meeting is open to anyone, and specifically designed for volunteer >>> or staff community members who want to be involved in this transition >>> period. >>> >>> I will take on “chairing” this first meeting, and have the following >>> topics in mind as agenda items: >>> >>> 1. >>> >>> State of the code + code transition plan as it stands (staff leading >>> conversation: Gregor Wagner or Fabrice Desré) >>> 2. >>> >>> Goals/areas of decision for the transition period >>> 3. >>> >>> Overall roadmap for transition, including specific timing >>> 4. >>> >>> Forming Working Group(s) >>> >>> >>> Let’s aim to keep this first meeting to ideally 60min and maximum 90min. >>> >>> Please add any other topics to this email/Discourse thread, or ping me >>> on IRC or Telegram at geroter. >>> >>> Naming the project >>> >>> Aside from the above, there is the issue of the name of the project. >>> You’ll notice that I have been using B2G OS instead of Firefox OS in this >>> note. >>> >>> The current thinking by our brand team is to reserve the “Firefox” label >>> for products that are actively being brought to market with users. This >>> might include any new Connected Devices products -- they would only get the >>> Firefox or Fox name once they were being marketed to potential users. >>> >>> I’d like your feedback on this, but my recommendation would be to start >>> calling this project B2G OS for smartphones right away (instead of Firefox >>> OS), with the volunteer community leadership of the project figuring out >>> later if there’s another more appropriate name. >>> >>> Basic technical outline of the code transition work: >>> >>> The goal of this plan is to reduce the gap between B2G and other Mozilla >>> products (Firefox Desktop and Android) to limit the potential for breakage >>> coming from platform changes, and to overall improve the webiness of B2G by >>> removing apis that won't become web standards. >>> >>> This effort spans several areas of the codebase: >>> >>> - >>> >>> deprecating packaged apps and security model >>> - >>> >>> process model >>> - >>> >>> low-level APIs >>> - >>> >>> making Service Workers actually work >>> >>> >>> We’ll give more details of this on the kickoff call, and will publish a >>> draft overall plan to the project wiki >>> <https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Community_Ownership_Transition> over the >>> coming few days. >>> >>> >>> To finish, I look forward to working together on making B2G OS for >>> smartphones a first class open source project owned by the community, built >>> for the community and still very much advancing Mozilla’s values. >>> >>> Onwards, >>> George >>> >>> -- >>> George Roter >>> Head of Core Contributors, Participation >>> >>> irc: geroter | skype: geroter >>> Cell - Canada: 416.670.2401 >>> Cell - USA: 650.485.0079 >>> <650%20308%208443> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> George Roter >> Head of Core Contributors, Participation >> >> irc: geroter | skype: geroter >> Cell - Canada: 416.670.2401 >> Cell - USA: 650.485.0079 >> <650%20308%208443> >> > > > > -- > George Roter > Head of Core Contributors, Participation > > irc: geroter | skype: geroter > Cell - Canada: 416.670.2401 > Cell - USA: 650.485.0079 > <650%20308%208443> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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