On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 6:30 AM Stefan Arentz <sare...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:14 PM Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> Hello party people (it's Friday!), >> >> We held a Mobile Tech Leads meeting on Wednesday (NA/EU timezones). We >> discussed only one topic: how does Storage and Sync fit into the Android >> Components ecosystem. The discussion was somewhat "at arm's length" >> because we did not have the AU representatives from the Application >> Services team attending. This discussion is still very active; that's >> mostly why I didn't circulate these notes the very next day. The broad >> strokes are: >> >> - The Android Components team wants a flexible approach to data >> storage for consumers >> - The Application Services team is bound by the constraints of the >> existing Sync 1.5 data model >> >> and trying to reconcile these two positions is generating a lot of >> (metaphorical, Google Document) ink. I'll follow up with more after next >> week's meeting (Oct 3). >> > > Thanks Nick, > > I just want to add here what I added at the end of this meeting: I think > the storage discussion becomes more 'real' when we talk about actual use > cases. We have a number of those, like Top Sites, Activity Stream, > Awesomebar. > > That moves the discussion away from 'who owns the storage' to 'how do we > implement the things we need' and I think a design will more easily come > out of that. I think it will also become clear then how these two teams > would work together to implement some of these and future application-level > features and how that would technically work. > > (Firefox for iOS is a great example where the application uses a > combination of synced data and generated data to implement > application-level features) > I could not agree more. The place where the teams are collaborating well is the place with the clearest use case: Lockbox for Android. I think such use cases really help, exactly as you say. Nick
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