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It would be cool if someone with insight into the mozilla community's structure could elaborate on how consensus to deploy experiments like this is established.

It would be cool if someone with insight into the mozilla community's structure could elaborate on how consensus to deploy experiments like this is established. I know that mozilla is very open, but as a fairly huge community it's still somewhat opaque to outsiders like me and I wouldn't know where to start looking. Are there pertinent mailing lists? Are things like this hatchd out on bug comments filed against the Shield product on bugzilla?

lucideer 9y ago
I'm pretty curious about this as well. I sent an email to their governance list[0] a number of months ago that never got any reply. As someone who's not involved in day-to-day, it would be extremely entitled if me to expect my views to be automatically taken on board, but the absolute silence (and general low level of activity) gave me the vague impression there must be discussion taking place elsewhere. I've also tried lurking on a few IRC channels, which were similarly lacking in content on this (beyond idle chat, or helping out beginners new to the channels). If the answer is that I need to email some individual to get into some private group to participate in (or even just to observe) discussion on governance, then that really isn't very transparent. Certainly public mailing lists I've checked don't seem to contain enormous amounts of contextual content on these kinds of things. [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/mozilla.governance https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/mozilla.governance
Sharlin 9y ago
Mozilla Corporation is, well, a corporation. There was almost certainly not any sort of community governance process involved. The marketing department presumably got a "cool" idea and had someone implement it. How they got the OK to deploy it to everybody is another question but that process doesn't involve the greater community either.

lucideer 9y ago

I'm pretty curious about this as well. I sent an email to their governance list[0] a number of months ago that never got any reply. As someone who's not involved in day-to-day, it would be extremely entitled if me to expect my views to be automatically taken on board, but the absolute silence (and general low level of activity) gave me the vague impression there must be discussion taking place elsewhere. I've also tried lurking on a few IRC channels, which were similarly lacking in content on this (beyond idle chat, or helping out beginners new to the channels). If the answer is that I need to email some individual to get into some private group to participate in (or even just to observe) discussion on governance, then that really isn't very transparent. Certainly public mailing lists I've checked don't seem to contain enormous amounts of contextual content on these kinds of things. [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/mozilla.governance https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/mozilla.governance

Sharlin 9y ago

Mozilla Corporation is, well, a corporation. There was almost certainly not any sort of community governance process involved. The marketing department presumably got a "cool" idea and had someone implement it. How they got the OK to deploy it to everybody is another question but that process doesn't involve the greater community either.