Re: Android single locale Aurora builds are back

[Fjoerfoks]

I guess if we want to make a change we need to bring this discussion to
governance instead of dev-l10.

This is probably a discussion for about 5-10 percent of all Firefox on
Mobile users.

Wim


2013/4/10 F Wolff <fri...@translate.org.za>

> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Axel Hecht <l1...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > On 09.04.13 13:42, Fjoerfoks wrote:
> >>
> >> Aurora builds are probably created every time there is an update in the
> >> system, that's fully automated
> >> for testing purposes, which I can understand.
> >>
> >> Would Google hate us when Mozilla would host their own packages?
> >> The buildsystem is there, the updates work, infrastructure is there, why
> >> not host single-localebuilds outside of Playstore?
> >> Build a nice webpage around it like
> >> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ and teach people how to
> install
> >> packages
> >> other than from Playstore. Just a thought.
> >>
> >> Freedom to all, your browser, your language.
> >
> >
> > Updating software outside of the google play store system pretty much
> sucks.
> > You need to enable developer prefs etc.
> >
> > The decision was that that's not a Firefox release build experience, and
> > thus we're not promoting that.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what is meant with a Firefox release build
> experience. Is the alternative (not releasing anything) a Firefox
> release build experience?
>
> Friedel
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[Axel Hecht]

I don't think this is an issue for .governance.

This is a product decision, it has been made a while ago, and has been
communicated repeatedly.

We shouldn't redo this discussion every time we talk about Android, as
long as the underlying constraints of the Android platform and market
don't change.

Axel