Sorry, I'll answer only part of your mail, as I don't see myself wise enough to comment everything you've written. That does not mean I disregard the part I deleted.
Le 12/02/2014 16:12, Adrian Custer a écrit : > > > A primary need, from my point of view, is taking the B2G project from > the current, fragile, undocumented, sloppily structured system to an > industrially robust, modular, fully documented build tool for all > users: mozilla developers, telephony partners, community hackers, and > web app developers who just need a latest build. > I spent December working on a bash script infrastructure for such a > project and then got bogged down for the nth time in the mess and > stopped, discouraged. Have you filed a bug for your work? Would be nice to post your current work somewhere so that you or someone else can pick it up later... > I gave up when I discovered that my manifest was downloading the > gigabytes of Linux kernel and associated libraries but was then > silently skipping the compile. have you filed a bug about this? > Eventually, I'll work up the energy again to delve into the mess and > maybe make progress; however, I suspect that I will never actually > successfully build FxOS for the OneTouch Fire. It's too bad because it > is a decent developer phone. > > A secondary need will be to resolve the GPL violations. My current > plan on that is to write the board of the Mozilla Foundation asking > for advice. I presume they would rather resolve this themselves > through back channels in a friendly supportive process since keeping > the telephony partners happy is critical to the ongoing success of > FxOS. However, I also suspect they will fail to assign anyone to work > on it or fail to sustain the effort necessary to make it happen. > (After all, technically this is not their problem.) That will mean we > are left to work through other means, probably contacting the Linux > Foundation, FSF, and SFLC, and possibly eventually end up in court. If > I have the energy for it, I guess that I'll learn how the court system > works in this country. (A minor hiccup in this plan is that Mozilla > does not actually offer any contact point for the Board of Directors > that I have yet been able to find, a lovely testimony to how little > they look at themselves from the point of view of the outside community.) I don't know for this, but I found a legal contact point specifically about copyright on the legal page: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal.html > > > > In the mean time, I would actually encourage you to not file any > bugs---it will end up being stressful without helping anyone. If you > have a 1.2 device and the developers have all moved on to 1.4, we > really can't help each other. 1.2 is actually kinda old now, but if you find bugs on 1.3 it's actually helpful to file bugs now. (I know you don't have a 1.3 device, I'm just saying) 1.2 is also much closer to 1.3 than 1.1 was to 1.2, so it might still be useful to file bugs about 1.2. > At best, they might eventually tell you 'works on newer xxx' which > will be of no utility to you and you won't be able to know if they > even understood your bug to begin with and if it has indeed been fixed. I don't know if that's the same for other components, but for the Messages app I always try to find the duplicated bug that fixed the issue, if any. > So save yourself the effort and grief, and save the work on bug > triage. Bugs are now features. I don't understand this. We use bugzilla for everything: features, little bugs, big bugs, uploading a SSH public key, opening accesses to some servers, etc. Regards, -- Julien
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