On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/22/2014, 3:12 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 1/21/2014, 4:27 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> .. >>>> >>>> In general, though, it seems to me that having partners patch Gecko is >>>> bad in the sense that it makes it harder to move to a future where the >>>> device vendor ships Gonk (analogous to Android) and Mozilla ships >>>> Gecko updates (analogous to Google Play Services). Have we given up on >>>> getting to a future where Mozilla ships Gecko updates and Firefox OS >>>> users get an up-to-date Gecko from Mozilla the way desktop and Android >>>> users do? >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm unaware of our plans for doing that, but indeed that sounds very hard >>> if >>> not impossible as long as Gecko modifications are permitted. Do you know >>> who would be the right person to ask about the plans you're referring to? >> >> I'm not sure what level of "plan" the assumed aspiration I'm referring >> to has ever been on. IIRC, back when the Gonk/Gecko/Gaia taxonomy was >> introduced, the idea was that Gonk was a Gecko porting target that >> mostly stays put and Gecko would update. It seems pretty clear that in >> order to get to a point where Firefox OS users have an up-to-date >> Gecko, it needs to be possible for Mozilla to push out a Gecko build >> to Gonk like pushing out a Firefox build for Android or Windows >> without requiring device-specific patches to be rebased and Gecko be >> rebuilt for each device as part of that process. >> >> I don't know who'd be the right person to ask about this. > > Jonas, do you happen to know more about this?
I generally agree that it's much better if partners don't modify Gecko at all. Though a certain maturity is required for that to be possible. Check with Chris Lee about this. I don't know what the latest requirements that we are putting on partners are. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
