On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Christian Walde <walde.christ...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Jun 2015 20:22:34 +0200, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 4:49 AM, <walde.christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There's one argument unmentioned here, and i suspect it wasn't mentioned >> yet because Tucker is too polite to do so. I however, having been burned >> many ways by Mozilla's "governance", have no reason to be polite about it. >> >> The addition of things like Hello and Pocket in FF core* deserves only a >> single description: >> >> Hypocrisy. >> >> Mozilla removed features that were core in FF, and would've been core in >> *any* browser; while arguing those features could be re-added as extensions. >> > > I'm trying to figure out how you think this applies to Hello. The WebRTC > functionality in Firefox that Hello makes use of is still there and > continues > to be improved. > > > As far as i can tell: > > WebRTC is an API, which of course belongs into core. > > Hello is a user interface, which should've been an extension. > > Or is it not be possible to implement an extension that duplicates Hello's > functionality and makes use of the WebRTC api? > Yes, it is probably possible to implement an extension that duplicate's Hello's functionality. I don't think it follows from that that it's not appropriate to ship it as part of Firefox. -Ekr _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
