On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:12:30PM -0600, Joshua Cranmer ? wrote: > On 11/6/2015 12:38 PM, Doug Turner wrote: > >I would have rather done this in a private email, but some replied and said > >I wasn’t clear. > > > > > >-> Do not merge comm-central into mozilla-central <- > > > > > >1) I think merging comm-central is a bad idea as it will basically tax all > >gecko + firefox developers forever. > > > >2) It isn’t clear that Thunderbird is a supported product anymore. MoCo > >certainly isn’t responsible for it. I don’t think MoFo does anything for it. > > I know that Thunderbird has been in talks with the Mozilla Foundation about > being officially supported by them, and I believe the only thing left is to > sign the ink on some papers for that. There are others who were involved in > those talks who could give more specific details. > > >3) We’re spending $ and time in Release on this project. I would rather not > >have to do that given (2). > > > >4) This sets a bad precedent. I don’t think we want every application built > >on top of gecko to be in mozilla-central. > > I've explained why this isn't really a precedent several times. > > > > > >We don’t have all of the time and resources in the world. We have to be > >very deliberate about what we work on. And Thunderbird — as it is now — > >isn’t something MoCo is focusing on. Because of this, I really doubt anyone > >in moco Release is going to futz with it. > > Except the release engineers in moco are already spending a good deal of > time on managing the Thunderbird release engineering--exactly as Mozilla > promised they would back in 2012.
And other moco engineers are wasting time because of the status quo (and I won't detail here because that's been covered in the thread already). Whether it happens in mozilla-central or somewhere else, this merge *will* have to happen at some point. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
