One model I'd like to see grow a lot is that of independent expert contracting agencies like @igalia. That can create more of an effective free market for platform improvements and maintenance.
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Me too, but it still requires caution: just because something gets funding doesn’t mean the community stakeholders will accept the patches. It’s best to get 100% assurance by the project owners that the feature will be accepted before any code gets written.
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That’s why I’d be great to have open governance models for these open source projects.
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There's no 100% assurance anywhere. All (browser) engineering involves uncertainty and risk. But expertise can minimize that risk and I suspect Igalia and Google are probably batting about the same average in chromium these days...
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I'd be interested to hear of any examples where more formal governance could have helped reduce uncertainty or risk though.
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Sometimes, all you need is the reassurance that the process is fair and balanced.
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While I’m not familiar enough with Chrome development to point at particular examples where the governance model helped derisk implementation, I have a recent example in mind with AMP where I feel like the governance model really did.
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The particular example in mind was implementing the opt-out mechanism for CCPA compliance by next Wednesday. I strongly believe the governance system was critical in making sure that deadline was met and that the implemented solution was actually the right one.
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It would be interesting to interview other players in the chromium field to see how they feel about the governance model, and if they’d be more keen to contribute if the governance model was different.
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Actually, now that I think a bit more about it, there was a lot of uncertainty around the privacy and security requirements that chromium had around the sensor work I did for Intel a few years ago, that a better governance system would have clarified upfront.
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Privacy and security review will be product-by-product for the foreseeable future. I don't see a way for a different governance structure to help. Better collaboration and project publication (e.g., Fugu) can help, tho.
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Can you clarify what you mean by product-by-product here?
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Chromium-embedding products, e.g. Chrome, Opera, Edge, Samsung Internet, UC, Xiaomi Browser, etc.
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