Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Hum. Apparently, _someone_ in bizdev thought that "revenue sharing" doesn't involve money, and spread information inside Mozilla accordingly. :rolling eyes: It seems that we do have a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket. If I understand correctly, we did not receive money for integrating it (whi

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
Would you agree though that while you were not paid to integrate that it was probably known that there was a revenue sharing deal going into this and that roughly translates to incentivizing the integration? I'm sure someone on the Firefox Team didn't wake up one morning and say "Great Scotts we a

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
I don't have details, but I can only imagine that yes, someone in the leadership team or just below pushed for this integration based on this deal. If my memory serves all of this happened with the previous leadership team, so I can only hope that this piece of history won't repeat itself. On 17/1

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
I should add that this was not a case of "money versus something that Mozilla users wanted", but rather a case of "the core Mozilla Community clearly doesn't want it but User Research suggests that most Mozilla users actually do". I remember that we had numbers at the time, although I don't quite r

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread Adam Roach
On 12/17/15 15:08, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: I'm sure someone on the Firefox Team didn't wake up one morning and say "Great Scotts we are missing Pocket in Firefox!" and AFAIK this was not on any long term roadmap. Having a reading list was, in fact, plotted out as a desired Firefox feature. Bef

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread Mike Connor
Hi all, Let's be perfectly clear here: the decision to integrate (and continue shipping) Pocket in Firefox did not, and does not, have anything to do with money. I can understand how people can fear the worst, so I'd like to set the record straight as much as I can. On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:08 P

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Mike Connor wrote: > Hi all, > > Let's be perfectly clear here: the decision to integrate (and continue > shipping) Pocket in Firefox did not, and does not, have anything to do with > money. I can understand how people can fear the worst, so I'd like to set > the

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread Eric Shepherd
Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > There are hundreds of other pieces of feedback about Pocket including new > comments left daily and I would encourage Mozilla to really look at whether > this feature serves users and is what they want. This is quite interesting; I for one find it remarkably convenient. Th

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread Angly Cat
On Friday, December 18, 2015 at 10:06:03 AM UTC+6, Eric Shepherd wrote: > This is quite interesting; I for one find it remarkably convenient. That > said, however, I was already a Pocket user before this integration occurred. You're biased, aren't you? Your opinion barely could be extrapolated to a

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-12-17 Thread Francesco Lodolo [:flod]
I don't think looking at 90 days is fair. Let's look at 7 days, at least there's something manageable https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?q=pocket&date_start=2015-12-10&selected=7d 9 'pocket' feedback entries, out of 3893 results (I'm counting only 'Firefox', that's about 39% of the entire 7 days