I can only speak for myself in this, but: > Did we not, in at least two other threads, kill the idea of building anything > on Sync 1.1?
I am very much opposed to continuing to build on Sync 1.1 as a vehicle for the future; it barely meets our needs now (and that's being generous), let alone a year from now. I proposed using it as a stopgap largely for two reasons: * If we consider FxA and setup to be important, it would allow us to get those to market without waiting for a full storage solution, and continue to ship something that's otherwise no worse than we have now. * It decouples the tensions -- of providing a good future product and providing *any* barely-viable product ASAP -- which I hope will allow us to do a good job of the former and ultimately achieve the best outcome. > Is this Milestone 1 designed as a prototype, foundation, or springboard for > the next best thing? > to get things going, so to speak? > a POC? > or are we really planning on shipping this Milestone 1 object out to desktop > and/or Android? I think that depends on a few things. Firstly, how quickly it gets done. Secondly, how happy we'd be having what we build in the market. (Largely a product call.) Thirdly, how we're tracking on a replacement. I can imagine a world in which we fairly easily retrofit an awesome Firefox Account on top of Sync on both platforms, we're happy with the feature set, and we're glad to have bought time to continue to build v2 -- ship v1! I can also imagine a world in which it takes longer than expected, or doesn't meet our product needs, and it's basically a tech demo for FxA. That's fine; that's a worthy purpose. We continue to roll with Old Sync as it stands until Sync.next is ready, using that time to refine FxA. Again, just my opinion; I know that Deb is soliciting vital input from product owners on this, and I'm sure Lloyd has important perspective to add here. -R _______________________________________________ Sync-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
