Firefox OS, B2G OS, and Gecko

Ari Jaaksi and David Bryant posteda note to the B2G (Boot to Gecko) OS community looking at the end ofFirefox OS development and at what happens to the code base going forward. "In the spring and summer of 2016 the Connected Devices team dug deeper into opportunities for Firefox OS. They concluded that Firefox OS TV was a project to be run by our commercial partner and not a project to be led by Mozilla. Further, Firefox OS was determined to not be sufficiently useful for ongoing Connected Devices work to justify the effort to maintain it. This meant that development of the Firefox OS stack was no longer a part of Connected Devices, or Mozilla at all. Firefox OS 2.6 would be the last release from Mozilla.Today we are announcing the next phase in that evolution. While work atMozilla on Firefox OS has ceased, we very much need to continue to evolvethe underlying code that comprises Gecko, our web platform engine, as partof the ongoing development of Firefox. In order to evolve quickly andenable substantial new architectural changes in Gecko, Mozilla's PlatformEngineering organization needs to remove all B2G-related code frommozilla-central. This certainly has consequences for B2G OS. For thecommunity to continue working on B2G OS they will have to maintain a codebase that includes a full version of Gecko, so will need to fork Gecko andproceed with development on their own, separate branch." (Thanks toPaul Wise)