On 11/12/2015 21:26, Ben Bucksch wrote: > Doug, you can't believe how relieved I am to hear that. That's what I > had always understood. > HTML5 is the future, we'll slowly migrate to there. I hope that Servo > will be our renderer in the not too distant future, and I'd be happy to > see XBL eventually die. Some change is necessary, the question is how > the change happens. First have a replacement that's better and more > powerful, then let it pick up, see how people like it, wait a few years, > then kill the old tech. > > Now I hear 18 months until death of XUL extensions, which would > effectively eradicate the majority of AMO and internal projects, and > that's an entirely different story. This is the point where projects are > at immediate risk, projects get canned. Very concretely, one employee of > mine resigned. > > I would like to have *more* of this kind of discussion out in the open, > and most importantly to have this open discussion determine the decision > that's made. > > All in all, thank you, Doug. Your post was speaking reasonableness.
I concur entirely. A large Japan-based company pinged me a few weeks ago, they wanted me to write an extension to Thunderbird adding UI for writing-modes in HTML emails so they could author vertical-writing messages. They are already users of BlueGriffon EPUB. The extension was supposed to become OSS, free of charge, announced by PR, all of Japan and China could have used it. Of course precisely in my favorite scope. Mitchell's announcement, relayed by ComputerWorld 3 days ago at the end of the FirefoxOS change announcement (they specifically quoted that article), made them stop abruptly the discussions yesterday so I lost a customer, and Thunderbird lost a market. A better - and more discussed with us - process is badly needed. This is killing our companies, and harming not only the future of Thunderbird but of a whole ecosystem. Users are fleeing because of this. </Daniel> _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
