Hi Chris,

+Aaron Train (Android WebRT QA) +Stephen Donner (k9o QA driver) +Tony Chung (Mobile QA lead) +Kevin Brosnan (Contributor turned employee)

Good feedback. Comments inline.

Sincerely, Jason Smith

Desktop QA Engineer Mozilla Corporation https://quality.mozilla.org/

On 5/8/2012 7:44 PM, chris hofmann wrote:

Right, I agree that the vision reflects the need for tablets and linux. From the tester's perspective, I'm a little less worried about the risk of not having tablet support, as the web apps integration for android is built into fennec native and reusing some of it's functionality. Fennec native itself, can run on a tablet, so we might still be okay to get some tablet support (I'll want to confirm with it with some testing though, Aaron & Tony probably could provide more insight here).

For linux, I believe the original rationale for not going for support initially was linux's low marketshare along with added engineering resources needed for it (i.e. it doesn't get the same benefit tablet gets above). However, a recent discussion I had with a contributor turned employee (Kevin Brosnan) makes me rethink that the primary reason for supporting linux is not marketshare. A rationale like you stated above relates to openness - the user makes the decision to use apps wherever they like. Another relates to paying attention to the needs of contributors - What do they find important? Note that I know linux users also happen to be loud, so not supporting their platform could hurt us from PR perspective (e.g. blog posts bashing us). Overall, I definitely believe we need to rethink our strategy on linux based on the rationale provided.

For linux, this is being thought about by one of our contributors, Marco. He's written up a specification of what he thinks should be done here - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/tzkVRnfvm1. Feel free to provide feedback.

Right, although I actually think keeping iOS out of scope is alright to do for now, as we need to nail down the web apps UX flow correctly on one mobile operating system and being successful, before we tackle another operating system. For linux, this is probably a good opportunity to form a community around web apps integration into linux, as even today I've seen interest in this.

Good call. Myk Melez is looking to get a module owner defined for the web app runtime on desktop on the governance discussion thread. Let's get that defined quickly and come up with a way to get patch support both internally and externally to get support platforms such as linux. I would be more than happy to help out with promoting community involvement with this. Myk - What do you think?