On Apr 16, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Fabrice Desré <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/15/2014 07:42 PM, James Ho wrote:
>> +1 to Gabriele's comments here, all valid concerns before we can roll out 
>> our better update mechanisms.
>> 
>> Re-certification is definitely the overhead that can't be ignored, in terms 
>> of time and money. We should deal with this requirement in mind when 
>> designing the new update. It should be flexible enough to allow users to 
>> update their own codes without the need of doing a maintenance release (and 
>> certification). Minimizing the core apps as Gabriele suggested is a 
>> reasonable approach. As FxOS starts to allow more things to be customized 
>> thru MarketPlace, such as home screens, lock screens, we will gradually move 
>> some of the update efforts to MarketPlace, not the "firmware" or "system" 
>> side thru OTA/FOTA.
> 
> It seems that you misunderstood my proposal. What I want is to add the
> means for users to switch to another update provider. I never said that
> Mozilla would have to be this provider and support the overhead you are
> mentioning. Communities like cyanogenmod and xda have shown that there
> is interest from a lot of people to do that.

OK, thanks for the explanation, we were talking different things…:) 

BTW, I also think having the ability to switch over to another update provider 
does sound like a nice to have feature. I assume it won't void the phone 
guarantee, or if it will, it's up to user's decision.

--
James

> 
>       Fabrice
> -- 
> Fabrice Desré
> b2g team
> Mozilla Corporation

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