On 15 Apr 2014, at 8:42 pm, Ben Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Fabrice Desré <[email protected]> wrote: > One piece is to provide an *easy* way to change the update channel. > > This definitely seems like the right solution for Gecko updates, and for > updates to Gaia apps which absolutely have to be certified. One use case is > providing an alternative release channel for security updates for devices > considered end of life by their manufacturers. But another use case is > providing a pre-release update channel for users to try out pre-release > versions of Firefox OS like they can with the Nightly, Aurora and Beta > Firefox release channels in order to contribute to the project by testing. We > should at a minimum be able to do this for the upcoming reference device. > > Another annoyance is that we still can't update gaia apps without doing > a full update. That's pretty ridiculous to not be able to upgrade > productivity and media apps for instance. That is blocked on some APIs > being only available to certified apps. > > We've discussed this before and I would really like to see as many as > possible of the Gaia apps move into the Firefox Marketplace so that they can > be updated independently of the OS like any other app. > > Perhaps a good place to start would be to list the APIs that are forcing each > Gaia app to be a "certified" app, and look at which of those APIs we could > feasibly start to transition to being available to privileged apps, or the > web. That sounds like a good idea, even just from the perspective of least privilege. Happy to help here where possible. Note also bugs 993266 and 934289. > > Ben > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
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