On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Fabrice Desré <[email protected]> wrote: > when it comes to shipping there is a minimum bar to meet, and with > basically a x2 memory usage we are not meeting it in this app yet, > sorry. Feel free to ship a new app alongside the existing one instead > and ask people to try it, since we can't do A/B testing.
I am hopeful that we can get to a place where we do have the option to allow early adopters to try variations in the apps. Long term I believe that will be possible with the new security model. We can host signed apps on domains that have access to traditionally certified APIs. This will allow us to set up app permutations that can be easy to try out. I could even see longer term allowing apps to have their own "trains", nightly.email.gaiamobile.org, etc. It would take a lot of discipline by the app devs to maintain them, and they may need to test for gecko versions, but it may be feasible. In the short term, the Web IDE allows installing certified app variants. In email, I use gaia-dev-zip[1] to alter the name of the app for the zip file and manifest so that I can get a capture of the email app that can be installed via the WebIDE and have it run alongside the email app that comes preinstalled in gaia. We will likely use this approach for getting early testers for an email app variant that supports conversations, to work out the bugs that way before landing on master. A bit longer term, if the app does not need certified APIs, then marketplace delivery of the app can work, particularly after bug 1208633 lands (if you want to use custom elements). James [1] https://github.com/jrburke/gaia-dev-zip _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
