As a happy Fennec end user with no direct involvement with Mozilla, I'm decidedly unhappy about the direction Mozilla seems to be going here. I don't expect this complaint to have any effect on plans, but FYI.
On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 3:59:09 PM UTC-4, Kris Maglione wrote: > This sounds like a stellar plan. > > -Kris > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 02:55:56PM -0500, James Willcox wrote: > >Folks, > > > >As you may be aware, Fennec has been frozen on 68 ESR with the expectation > >that Fenix will become the new Firefox for Android in 2020. For reasons of > >hygiene and simplification, I propose that we begin removing Fennec from > >mozilla-central as soon as feasible. There are a few known blockers > >currently being tracked under bug 1582218. If you know of any other issues, > >please let me know and/or file blockers. > > > >Obviously, we will not be removing anything related to GeckoView. This > >means that mobile/android/geckoview/, MOZ_WIDGET_ANDROID, etc. will all be > >sticking around. Only the Fennec frontend and any platform code that needed > >to disambiguate Fennec from GeckoView at runtime[0] will be targeted. > > > >Thanks, > >James > > -- > Kris Maglione > > Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing > exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the > well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. > --Herman Melville _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
