[desktop-discuss] Propose to create a new mail alias for Firefox/Thunderbird in OpenSolaris

[Garrett D'Amore]

Alfred Peng wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>     I'm writing to propose creating a new mail alias for
> Firefox/Thunderbird in OpenSolaris, with the name
> mozilla-discuss at opensolaris.org. Would like to get some feedback from
> you guys.
>
>     Actually this is one part of the proposal for creating a new project
> "Firefox/Thunderbird" in the OpenSolaris community under JDS project.
> Attached file is the background information. And thanks Glynn for
> helping on this.
>
> Thanks & Best Regards,
> -Alfred
>   

+1, and also +1 for the project.
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> 1. Background and objective
> With the development of OpenSolaris community, it attracts more and more attention from the open source world. The basic idea of OpenSolaris is to provide an infrastructure for communicating and sharing related information. As the default browser and mail client, Firefox/Thunderbird are among the most important applications for the desktop environment.
>
> This draft proposal is about creating a new project "Firefox/Thunderbird" in OpenSolaris community. The final goal is to make OpenSolaris a Tier-1 platform[1] for Mozilla community.
>
> 2. The advantages
>   1) A place to make the development of Firefox/Thunderbid on Solaris public. The current development isn't open enough to the outside world. The new project can definitely help communicate and share information with the people who are interested. After stopping providing the Firefox/Thunderbird builds for Solaris 8/9, there were lots of emails sending to us. These are great feedback from the users which can help on the decision making.
>
>   2) A channel to work with the whole open source community. For this project, it's great to have people from the community to apply their expertise to Firefox/Thunderbid.
>
>   3) A repository for the OpenSolaris specific information. The documents are important for the software development and knowledge sharing. If the OpenSolaris specific documents and links for Firefox/Thunderbird can be put into one place, that's convenient for the OpenSolaris users.  
>
> 3. The contents for this project page
>   The developer's section may include:
>   1) The development of accessibility module.
>   2) The usage of Solaris specific technology in Firefox/Thunderbird, especially DTrace.
>   3) The performance tuning work.
>   4) Some important bugs discussion.
>
>   The quality engineer's section may include:
>   1) The bugday/testday in the community(http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Bug_Day, http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Firefox_1510_2002_Community_Test_Day).
>   2) The introduction to Litmus(http://litmus.mozilla.org).
>   3) The test case automation.
>
>   The release engineer's section may include:
>   1) The document for the build delivery automation system.
>   2) The download links for different binary builds.
>   3) The tinderbox tree status and test result(http://tinderbox.mozilla.org).
>
>   Some channels:
>   1) Feedback. It's necessary to have a public mail alias for the discussions about Firefox/Thunderbird on OpenSolaris. The mozorg-builds at sun.com isn't applicable because the outside users can't subscribe to it.
>   2) Bug report. The bug can be reported to mozilla bugzilla(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org) and the team alias can be added to the bug cc list to get the notice.
>
> [1]Tier-1 platform for Mozilla community: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Build_FAQ.
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