I've been reading this thread for more than a week now, and I decided to throw my tuppenny bit in.
* The original start was posted June 5th. * There was a Bugzilla report posted on July 2nd, about the fact that the API is using undocumented (aka proprietary) calls. This has not been claimed or posted to. * There have been posts from people who have contacted Pocket, and been told that they won't release information on the API. * There are some rather pointed questions about the Pocket TOS, and how it could poison the Firefox platform's Open Source viewpoint. * There have been posts from Mozilla developers who have said they are trying to get clarification from Pocket. * It's been 7 business days since the bugzilla report was posted. For something this important, that's reprehensible on the part of Pocket. * There have been a number of pointed questions about how opaque the decision was to insert a proprietary protocol into Firefox, while there was a satisfactory add-on already present. It really seems that with all of the questions about the TOS and proprietary technology, Mozilla Manefesto number 04 comes into play here, and 08 has been completely ignored. With all of the above, my personal belief is that it is time to roll back the change to Firefox, removing the Pocket integration, and go back to the add-on. Until all of the above questions are answered, especially by the lawyers, this will continue to polarize the community. Right now, it appears to be an indeterminate number of developers vs everyone else. Developers get to make the decision, but this kind of argumentation means they don't have time to continue working on the product. That means that the initial decision was a bad one, for now. Remove it for now, get the answers to the questions, bring it up in transparent discussion, then put it back if the questions are answered in a way that won't violate the Manifesto and the community traditions. (Using Mozilla since Netscape Navigator) _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
