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 _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
