Re: Handing off Style System module ownership to Cameron McCormack

[L. David Baron]

I've edited https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Core to reflect this
change in the module owner for the style system.

-David

On Sunday 2017-12-17 20:12 -0800, L. David Baron via governance wrote:
> Stylo (which shipped as part of Firefox 57) integrated Servo's style
> system into Gecko. The old Gecko style system is still around for a
> few more releases, until we can switch chrome usage and switch
> Firefox for Android over to Stylo. This means that right now there
> are three parts to the style system code:
>
> * the code that is common to both the Gecko and Servo style
> systems, and connects both of them to the rest of Gecko,
>
> * the Servo style system, which is covered by Servo's review
> policies rather than Gecko's, and
>
> * the Gecko style system, which will be going away soon but hasn't
> yet.
>
> While I've been style system module owner for a long time, at this
> point I'm not as knowledgable about the first two pieces here as a
> number of other people are, and I think it's (past) time to hand off
> module ownership.
>
> ** Therefore I'm proposing that Cameron McCormack (heycam) replace
> me as module owner of the style system. **
>
> Cameron has significant experience working on the old (Gecko) style
> system, and has been part of the Stylo team since the beginning of
> the Stylo project. He has a strong understanding of the
> requirements of a style engine for the Web and of the design (both
> strengths and weaknesses) of our current style systems. And he's
> willing to take over as module owner.
>
> I think some of the other members of the stylo team should be added
> as peers, but I'm going to let Cameron do that after he becomes
> owner.
>
> And don't worry -- I'm not going anywhere. I still own three other
> modules.

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And to whom I was like to give offense.
- Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)

[Cameron McCormack]

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018, at 5:57 AM, L. David Baron wrote:
> I've edited https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Core to reflect this
> change in the module owner for the style system.

Thanks, David, for your stewardship of this module for the last 15 years!

https://web.archive.org/web/20020802105513/http://www.mozilla.org:80/owners.html

[Jet Villegas]

Congratulations, Cameron. Rewriting modules has the nice effect of
improving the bus factor when new contributors pick up the design and
implementation. Let’s carve deeper into the Layout engine!

—Jet

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[Daniel Glazman]

Le jeudi 4 janvier 2018 13:29:09 UTC+1, Jet Villegas a écrit :

> Congratulations, Cameron. Rewriting modules has the nice effect of
> improving the bus factor when new contributors pick up the design and
> implementation. Let’s carve deeper into the Layout engine!

If I believe Twitter, Cameron was laid off with the other 70% of
Mozilla Taiwan. Sorry but I don't understand, at all. I think I read
his contributions to Quantum were instrumental, and I've personally
witnessed in the CSS WG how instrumental Cameron is. And Cameron is the
Style System owner now. I urge Mozilla to hire him again, whatever the
solution. Hire him remotely, contract with him, whatever; just do it for
the sake of the new Style engine. Thanks.

</Daniel>