Hi,
As for introduction, I'm David Bruant, Mozilla contributor for a couple
of years now, mostly on JavaScript docs, occasional bug triaging and
commenting. I'm currently contracting for Mozilla to document WebAPIs
and I've decided to focus first on APIs available to non-certified app
developers.
Before anything else, I'm cross-posting on both dev-b2g and dev-gaia
because I'm not sure which of both is the relevant mailing-list. Feel
free to drop the one that is not relevant from CCs if applicable.
Apologies for the noise.
I've discovered on the devengage mailing list [1] that as of January
10th, remote debugging for FirefoxOS has been disabled. This is quite
unfortunate, because remote debugging makes a tremendous difference in
my work studying and documenting the APIs. It's also obviously a much
needed feature for app developers.
A couple of questions remain unanswered:
* Why has this been decided?
* Is it planned to re-enable it in its previous form? a new form?
* Has a date or milestone been decided to fix this issue?
* If it takes too long to fix, what are the other ways to debug apps on
an actual device?
Besides these questions to understand the current situation, I'd like to
discuss a trend I'm noticing. I am under the impression that app
developers are becoming a growing population of the FirefoxOS ecosystem
especially with Mozilla increasingly reaching out to potential such
developers (app days all over the globe in the upcoming weeks). I feel
it will become increasingly important for this population to have a
stable development environment and if for good reasons the environment
can't be kept stable, alert this population of the upcoming change that
may affect it.
Thank you very much,
David
[1]
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.engagement.developers/DuoPbjXqK48/EONYxwGrFQsJ
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