Re: Thunderbird, the future, mozilla-central and comm-central

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Paul wrote: > The Mozilla platform secures the future of Firefox and Mozilla. If we create > a platform where developers can plug and play components to create > cross-platform software, we get more contributors to the platform itself. We > grow the Mozilla ecosy

Re: MPL, copyleft, and the recent H5OS stuff as an example of a threat to Mozilla...

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: > Kyle's answers are excellent. Just a correction: > > On 22/07/15 00:00, Kyle Huey wrote: >> Mozilla was created with a less restrictive license because Netscape >> wanted to be able to incorporate open so

Re: MPL, copyleft, and the recent H5OS stuff as an example of a threat to Mozilla...

I'll assume this is not a troll, hopefully I'm not wrong :) Responses inline. On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:30 AM, wrote: > Hey all, I'm not active in the Mozilla community but am a fan and user. I > have some concerns. I'd like for someone to answer these questions that I > have, and I guess I'd

Re: New Module Proposal: Media

I suspect there's some confusion here between bugzilla components and governance modules. - Kyle On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Robert Strong wrote: > What would happen to the existing Core -> Video/Audio component with the > addition of the Firefox -> Video/Audio component you are proposing?

Re: Modules for websites needs updating

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:03 PM, David Weir wrote: > Can someone update these > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Mozilla_Websites > > I believe Mozillians is now pierros for example You should ask the relevant teams to do this. > also https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/All#Governance_Sub_Module

Re: Logging All Public Project IRC Channels

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Kyle Huey wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Benjamin Kerensa >> wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> What does everyone think

Re: Logging All Public Project IRC Channels

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > Hello All, > > What does everyone think about logging irc channels for both transparency > and accountability but also to ensure compliance > with our participation guidelines? I know some channels have decided to > public log on their ow

Re: Proposed Module: Media Transport

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to propose a new module for the "media transport" (perhaps > not the best name). This is the code that lives in media/mtransport > and includes support for the transport pieces of WebRTC. This code > is quite distinct fro

Re: How to make a Gaia::SIM Toolkit module a reality?

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Fabrice Desré wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks for taking care of that Tim, > > On 11/13/2014 06:56 PM, Tim Chien wrote: > >> Essentially, this means giving credit is blocked by governance, >> governance is blocked on technical, and technical is blocked on UX. >> >> So,

Re: Change of ownership for the ImageLib module

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Seth Fowler wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a bit strange, since it seems to be customary for the previous module > owner to hand off ownership to the new one, but I’d like to propose that I be > made the new module owner for the ImageLib module. > > The previous ow

Re: tracking protection module

And you have my bow. - Kyle On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > You have my sword! > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:57 PM, wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'd like to propose a new module for tracking protection. We are continuing >> to investigate options in tracking and have tried

Re: Gaia::Build module proposal

t at the > same time personal transition took place. > > Unless any of the proposed co-owners offer his registration, I don't > see what else I could do to reduce the # of co-owners. > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Kyle Huey wrote: >> It's quite unusual to have a

Re: Gaia::Build module proposal

It's quite unusual to have a module with four owners ... you should pick one to be the owner and designate the rest as peers. - Kyle On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Tim Chien wrote: > Amendment: adding George Duan as co-owner of the module. > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Tim Chien wrote:

Re: Creating a FirefoxOS/Wifi module

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On 15.07.2014, at 22:34 , Kyle Huey wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Blake Kaplan wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Tim Chien wrote: >>> >>>> I am not objecting anything, bu

Re: Creating a FirefoxOS/Wifi module

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Blake Kaplan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Tim Chien wrote: > >> I am not objecting anything, but I am interested to know why aren't we >> creating a DOM::Wifi module but a FirefoxOS::Wifi module? >> > > I discussed this briefly with khuey yesterday a

Re: dom/apps code ownership

I support this with the caveat that changes to the API exposed via the navigator.mozApps object will still be subject to the review requirements listed at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.b2g/Ee1Hfp6QeHE. - Kyle On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Fabrice Desré wrote: > Hi all, >

Re: Hal peers wanted

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Mike Connor wrote: > Yep, this is correct. > > Ideally, we're looking for people to step up who have experience/skills to > tackle a module. If the right people are willing to step up and take > ownership, that's the system working! I don't have enough visibility

Re: Is Mozilla slow-walking this supposedly "open dialogue" forum?

I suspect the moderator has been off enjoying the Easter holidays with his family. - Kyle On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Zeev Wurman wrote: > I have posted a response on Friday morning (before 10 am PDT), and it has not > been posted yet. > > Just wondering. >

Re: Is that true? If yes, some answers are necessary!

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:39 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller > wrote: >> Frankly, that looks fake. > > Whoever it is, they're now claiming to be a Mozilla employee: > http://darrningram.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/mozilla-and-australis-and-f

Re: treatment of Brendan Eich

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:54 PM, jsabash wrote: > On 4/13/2014 6:52 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:22 PM, John Boley wrote: >>> >>> If you need to be a homosexual to use Moxilla products, I >>> do not - and certainly do not wishto- qualify. >> >> You do not need t

Security of Open Source Software (Was: Mozilla fiddles while Mozilla burns)

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Big Fred wrote: > You are mincing words, trying to evade the truth, as if there is some great > difference between deliberately introducing a vulnerability that invades > allows invasion of privacy and writing code that does it directly. Your > central point tha

Re: What happened to the 1st Amendment???

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 4/12/14 8:21 PM, jimtay...@openmailbox.org wrote: >> >> Brendan also claims that the Board first raised the idea of him stepping >> down on the 26 March. > > > I must have missed this. Can you link me to where you saw that, please? > > -B

Re: Brendan Eich

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Again, I disagree with the tweets in question. I've spent a good bit of > time thinking about how I should react personally to them and to their > authors. In all cases, I don't think that Mozilla the organization should > be censuring the a

Re: It's not so much about "diversity" but now about "trust"

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:24 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: >> It is a fact that a board member resigned rather than appointing Brendan, >> but the reason was not given. The FAQ fails to note this which makes it >> misleading. > > - Well, that's pretty simple: he was the other candidate for

Re: Back to IE and Microsoft - Mozilla Intolerance

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Jim Taylor wrote: > > Sure, anyone could fork the source, but the Foundation do own and control the > Mozilla source *repositories*. With a distributed version control system like Mercurial this is irrelevant. Creating another repository somewhere outside of the

Re: Choosing lead roles and direction by the community

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ben Bucksch wrote: > I've wanted to post this proposal since a long time, but given that Mozilla > now needs to decide about both a CTO and CEO, I think this is a good time: > > I've always seen Mozilla as a project, not a company. And a project is > supported by it

Re: Persona changes and communications

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Rubén Martín wrote: > Hi, > > Even this time there was a (at least for me) clear article about the > changes > > on Persona, most people I read or that have pinged me think

Re: Service to Maintain Module Peer/Owner Information and Audit Check-Ins

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Tim Abraldes wrote: >> I don't understand. We already have a canonical database of modules >> and module owners. That's what the Modules wiki is. > > Perhaps I left out important context. > > Here is a quote (without asking, sorry!) from :gps in the other thread

Re: Service to Maintain Module Peer/Owner Information and Audit Check-Ins

I don't understand. We already have a canonical database of modules and module owners. That's what the Modules wiki is. - Kyle ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance

Re: Process for Appealing Developer Decisions

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:50 AM, wrote: > How can we call a vote? How can we appeal? > Mozilla is not a democracy. There are no votes. If the relevant module owner does not wish to make a change the only person that can overrule them is Brendan Eich. - Kyle

Re: Alive Kuo as System app co-owner

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Tim Chien wrote: > Hi all, > > I talked to Vivien earlier and we agreed to make Alive a co-owner of > Gaia System app. > > System app is the core part of the Gaia experience, and Alive have > been taking his own initiative to look after z-index layering, window >

Re: End of XP support in April 2014: what about Mozilla products?

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On 2013-06-26 10:37 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: > >> XP is a massive platform both for our current user base and for the >> developing world where we see millions of new web users coming online >> every month. We won't be dropping suppor

Re: End of XP support in April 2014: what about Mozilla products?

Asa can give you the official word here but the end of support from Microsoft is unlikely to effect our decision to support Windows XP, which will be based on how many users we have still running XP (among other things). - Kyle On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:57 AM, PARET Sebastien < sebastien.pa...@th

governance@lists.mozilla.org

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM, John Jensen wrote: > Hi David, > > > The hiring process, for various reasons > > cannot be considered as a meritocracy > > Could you expand on that a bit? > If nothing else, we are restricted in the countries we can hire in due to various legal things. - Kyle _

governance@lists.mozilla.org

On Sep 13, 2012 7:18 PM, "David Bruant" wrote: > > Le 12/09/2012 19:24, L. David Baron a écrit : > > So I think one of the assumptions you're making is that it's good to > > agree on priorities. > Yes. I don't remember the full context, but it seemed like Brian King's > assumption too. > > > I thi