Replying to myself since nobody thought it worthwhile to reply and have an open, honest discussion on this ML about this.
Parts of the gonk widget have already been removed; so the decision to do it was taken was not communicated publicly. Or maybe it was never up for discussion. I don't know which. Either way it seems to me that our culture of working in an open and transparent way - which we proudly proclaimed only a few years back in a video [1] - is disappearing. I find this both sad and worrisome. The reason I find it worrisome is that one thing that hurt Firefox OS the most was that all decisions regarding the project's direction were taken internally. This opaqueness made it impossible to attract contributors and build a community around the project. I can only hope this was an exception and not our general approach to development because this attitude can hurt us, badly. Gabriele [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIKLdVEWPrE "While most products and technologies are developed behind closed doors, ours are cultivated out in the open, for everyone to see".
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