On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 01:22:35PM -0400, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > I support going back to a giant monolithic repository if we can cleanly > delineate the code for various projects. > > We know that the searchability and readability of our code is a major > barrier to some kinds of participation. We should continue to optimize > ourselves around that workflow. > > Does this proposal come with a plan to check out subsets of the code? In > particular, I want to express the following as something inbetween "serious > concerns" and "requirements": > > * The default view of dxr.mozilla.org should not include non-Firefox code > * The default checkout should not include non-Firefox code. (Note: > this is about the working tree: I don't think the space in the .hg > directory matters enough to worry about). > > >- TTBOMK, Thunderbird is Mozilla's second largest project in terms of > > number of users, behind Firefox, and before Firefox for Android and > > Firefox OS. Many of those users may legitimately want to contribute > > to Thunderbird, and the bar to entry is made much higher by the > > multi-repository setup and the extra complexity it entails. Mozilla is > > actively making the bar to entry for Firefox/Firefox for > > Android/Firefox OS contributions lower, at the expense of Thunderbird > > contributors. This is a sad state of affairs. > > I'm sorry that it makes you sad, but Mozilla has explicitly decided to > prioritize the bar to entry for Firefox development, and the speed of > development of Firefox, at the expense of Thunderbird (and seamonkey).
What's even more sad is that it's at the expense of Thunderbird (and SeaMonkey) *and* at the expense of Firefox build system changes. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
