On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 9:05 AM Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:31 AM Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> The "Other/Android Background Services" module is obsolete and should be >> removed: >> >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Other#Android_Background_Services >> >> The code and services that it covers have changed ownership. First, the >> github repository https://github.com/mozilla-services/android-sync was >> decommissioned in 2015 and all development moved to mozilla-central. The >> code at that time was owned by Fennec peers: Richard Newman and myself >> (among others). Now that responsibility is with the Firefox Accounts and >> Sync teams; Grisha Kruglov is the true owner. But in reality the code is >> orphaned and scheduled for decommission and replacement by the Application >> Services Rust FxA + Sync 1.5 in >> https://github.com/mozilla/application-services. (It might be that the >> Application Services stack should be a module, but it hasn't seemed >> necessary to date, and it shouldn't stop removing obsolete modules.) >> >> Can I please have approval from the Module System Owners to remove it, >> officially subsuming any remaining technical pieces into the Firefox for >> Android module? >> > > In the face of crickets, I've done this. > > I will note that browsing around the /Modules page is depressing, because > it in no way reflects either the technical nor the political reality of the > parts of the Mozilla project that I am knowledgeable about :( I expect > this is a well known lament and will therefore limit myself to saying that > here is another vote for doing away with the misleading /Modules page > entirely, simply because I don't like the cognitive dissonance. > And I see now that I should have said /Modules/Other both places above, which changes things: it's clearly just an underloved part of the /Modules hierarchy. Nick _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
