Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-28 Thread Matthieu Ducorps
Sorry nothing much to say but +1 Matthieu > On Oct 27, 2016, at 21:30, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > > Replying to myself since nobody thought it worthwhile to reply and have > an open, honest discussion on this ML about this. > > Parts of the gonk widget have already been

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-27 Thread Gabriele Svelto
Replying to myself since nobody thought it worthwhile to reply and have an open, honest discussion on this ML about this. Parts of the gonk widget have already been removed; so the decision to do it was taken was not communicated publicly. Or maybe it was never up for discussion. I don't know

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-04 Thread Axel Hecht
On 04/10/16 17:40, Fabrice Desre wrote: On 10/04/2016 08:34 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: I'd favor to remove at least anything related to l10n from b2g. It never really worked, and is a half-maintained copy of the almost-working stuff in mobile. In my local branches that try to create a test on

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-04 Thread Axel Hecht
On 04/10/16 12:16, Gabriele Svelto wrote: * b2g ~20K lines which would also drop considerably due to the removal of the APIs, completely self-contained I'd favor to remove at least anything related to l10n from b2g. It never really worked, and is a half-maintained copy of the

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-04 Thread Fabrice Desre
On 10/04/2016 08:34 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: I'd favor to remove at least anything related to l10n from b2g. It never really worked, and is a half-maintained copy of the almost-working stuff in mobile. In my local branches that try to create a test on broken l10n infrastructure, both mobile and

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-04 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 04/10/2016 01:22, Gregory Szorc wrote: > https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=gonk seems to > contradict your assertion that gonk is well-contained. I thought that the analysis in my first post was sufficiently detailed but here's one with line numbers to get a more accurate idea:

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-03 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
A comparison point: I opened https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1264155 a while back about removing widget/uikit/ -- which is used by the old iOS port of Firefox -- and others disagreed so I let it slide. So there's precedent for little-used/unused widget code hanging around. (Whether or

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-03 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > > Respectively, it seems like these requests were ultimately not included > > in the final decision. > > I would like to know why; I think that's not much to ask. I would also > like to know why this decision was made

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-03 Thread Gabriele Svelto
> Respectively, it seems like these requests were ultimately not included > in the final decision. I would like to know why; I think that's not much to ask. I would also like to know why this decision was made without any public discussion. As I've pointed out the removal of another widget was

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-03 Thread Justin Dolske
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > > Since gonk is a widget on its own, during the internal discussions about > it I - and others who worked on B2G - repeatedly asked for the gonk > widget to be left in the code even after the removal of all the >

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-09-30 Thread Benjamin Francis
On 30 September 2016 at 11:31, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > Since gonk is a widget on its own, during the internal discussions about > it I - and others who worked on B2G - repeatedly asked for the gonk > widget to be left in the code even after the removal of all the >

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-09-30 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 30/09/2016 06:04, Chris Peterson wrote: > Is Gonk used anywhere besides B2G? Can we remove all Gonk code, e.g. > dom/camera/Gonk* and #ifdef MOZ_WIDGET_GONK? Gonk is not used anywhere else, some of it's code was merged with Fennec's code to reduce the maintenance burden but there's still quite

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-09-29 Thread Chris Peterson
On 9/29/2016 11:46 AM, Sebastian Hengst wrote: as has been announced earlier https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.fxos/FoAwifahNPY the Boot 2 Gecko (B2G) code will be removed from mozilla-central. Is Gonk used anywhere besides B2G? Can we remove all Gonk code, e.g.

Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-09-29 Thread Sebastian Hengst
Hi, as has been announced earlier https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.fxos/FoAwifahNPY the Boot 2 Gecko (B2G) code will be removed from mozilla-central. A tracking bug has been created for that work: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306391 So if you remove code