Re: Non-standard stuff in the /dom/ directory

2016-08-17 Thread Benjamin Francis 
On 17 August 2016 at 13:07, Benjamin Francis  wrote:

> As discussed in the public B2G Weekly
>  meetings, the B2G community want
> to remove ~30 APIs (~10 of which they have already removed) from Gecko, but
> keep ~3 chrome-only APIs and the Gonk widget layer which are still in use
> by the B2G open source project.
>

Specifics: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/b2g-transition-requirements
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Re: Non-standard stuff in the /dom/ directory

2016-08-17 Thread Benjamin Francis 
On 17 August 2016 at 05:05, Kyle Huey  wrote:

> s/moved out/deleted/
>
> This is a complicated subject caught in a variety of internal
> politics.  I suggest you raise it with your management chain ;)


It's really not that complicated and there's no need to be so Machiavellian
about it :)

As discussed in the public B2G Weekly 
meetings, the B2G community want to remove ~30 APIs (~10 of which they have
already removed) from Gecko, but keep ~3 chrome-only APIs and the Gonk
widget layer which are still in use by the B2G open source project. Some
module owners from platform want to go further by removing all B2G-related
code from mozilla-central, requiring the B2G community to fork Gecko if
they want to continue. They feel the B2G code is getting in the way of
other important platform work.

The issue has been escalated up the module ownership chain as per Mozilla's
governance system and a decision will be made and communicated in due
course.

I think Marcos' suggestion is a good one. It seems like a good idea to
clearly separate standard web APIs from chrome-only APIs which are not on a
standards track (e.g. the Browser API which Firefox is using).

Ben
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Re: Non-standard stuff in the /dom/ directory

2016-08-16 Thread Kyle Huey 
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:56 PM,  <mar...@marcosc.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering, would it be worth while cleaning up the dom/ directory to move 
> non-standard stuff out of there?
>
> There is a bunch of legacy stuff from B2G that could be moved out to, say, 
> b2g/apis or some such for historical reasons.
>
> It would make searching/working-with for standardized DOM related stuff much 
> easier.

s/moved out/deleted/

This is a complicated subject caught in a variety of internal
politics.  I suggest you raise it with your management chain ;)

- Kyle
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Non-standard stuff in the /dom/ directory

2016-08-16 Thread marcos 
I'm wondering, would it be worth while cleaning up the dom/ directory to move 
non-standard stuff out of there? 

There is a bunch of legacy stuff from B2G that could be moved out to, say, 
b2g/apis or some such for historical reasons.

It would make searching/working-with for standardized DOM related stuff much 
easier. 

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