People:removing roadblocks to productivity/project ffos dev
Firefox OS Development
Project manager: Lawrence Mandel
What we heard
Work already in progress
Shorter term actions
These are things we expect to accomplish in 2014.
Longer term changes / shifts
These are things we expect will take time, influence, and repetition to shift.
Responses in this category
- Too many variations of Firefox OS; different devices, Gonk types (proprietary drivers), Gaia branches, Gecko versions, desktopb2g/Devices, nightly builds too many combinations for our small team and too many barriers to engage community. 27 votes
- FirefoxOS development hurts. There is a massive barrier to entry, the Right Way seems to change every few months (rendering most documentation broken), and even successful builds take a very long time. 22 votes
- The expectation that I fix bugs on hardware I don't have. 17 votes
- Having to deal with completely nonsensical B2G deadlines from partners. 1 vote.
- Building firefox is slow. 10 votes