On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Ben Hearsum <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's worth noting that Mozilla is not going to be running the update
> servers for FxOS.

Interesting. I thought the point of the Gonk/Gecko separation was that
Gonk would serve as a porting target for Gecko and, therefore, enable
shipping “Gecko for Gonk” binaries instead of “Gecko for device Foo”,
“Gecko for device Bar”.

> I'm 99% sure it's the telcos that will be, but it's
> possible that it may be the manufacturer.

Can a user expect that a Firefox-branded device gets a Gecko update
every x weeks for the duration of at least y years for some known x
and y?

> I don't think it's safe to
> assume anything about the availability of gecko/gaia updates for users
> who built their own gonk. However, I also don't think we should be too
> concerned about it. As with Desktop or Android Firefox, it's not a great
> use of our time to commit to the same level of support for these sorts
> of things.

In the case of desktop and Android, the user can get Mozilla-built
Firefox even if the user is running self-compiled kernel/drivers.

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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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