As far as I heard, Spark was suppose to go away after the 2.5 project as we merged all the items we want to keep from Spark project into 2.5...
I'm not certain when we're going to get rid of it completely. +Eli for Raptor. On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Aleh Zasypkin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Francesco, > > Thanks for raising this! I can say only for "raptor" - it's not going to > have anything user facing, so I believe it should not be included into any > localization workflow. > > > What are the criteria to put things into /distros? > > That's the question I didn't manage to find definite answer for. Would be > nice for someone knowledgeable to jump in. Here are the reasons why we > created distros/raptor: > > 1) We want to have _out of tree_ benchmark apps that will be downloaded > only for Raptor (via "make raptor") and "distros" mechanism supports this > already.This way we won't have bloated dev_apps folder (IIRC this folder is > going to die soon? [1]); > > 2) Raptor setup should have its own preferences, settings, env variables > and we didn't want to modify Makefile and build/preferences.js all the time; > > 3) Currently it contains only one in-tree app that has been moved from > dev_apps (is this folder excluded from localization workflow as well?). The > main reason why it's still in the tree is that we want to run integration > tests on Treeherder for it. > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1133711 > > Thanks, > Oleg > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Francesco Lodolo [:flod] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'd need some clarifications on the /distros folder in Gaia. >> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/distros >> >> Right now /distros contains 3 subfolders: >> >> - /raptor and /spark have apps with localizable manifests, but no >> actual strings. >> - /b2gdroid has actual strings, even if sadly we don't ship a >> localized version of it. >> >> What are the criteria to put things into /distros? Is it safe to assume >> that it will not contain information relevant for localization (excluding >> b2gdroid)? >> >> Strings are exposed to localizers through a conversion process[1]. /spark >> is already excluded, but new folders appearing in /distros will be included >> automatically and exposed for localization (it happened for /raptor this >> week), and nobody benefits from that. >> It might be useful to understand if it makes more sense to exclude case >> by case ('raptor' now), like it's already happening, or just exclude >> everything but 'b2gdroid'. >> >> Francesco >> >> [1] >> https://blog.mozilla.org/axel/2013/09/19/a-tale-of-convert-and-convert/ >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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