How about at the really high level? Should we have fewer developers (work different? work harder?) a smaller marketing budget (count on word of mouth?) or fewer office things (cheaper chairs?).
How many people are working on MR and associated projects now?
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I don't actually know. Maybe 20 or so.
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Are you including servo, which says it has been entirely repurposed as an MR vehicle?
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BTW, Servo's major advancements have been or are being incorporated into Gecko. See Stylo (Quantum Style) and WebRender (Quantum Render). https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum We're working on getting all that goodness into desktop and mobile Firefoxen.
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I'm well aware of that. More effort on those advancements was deprioritized in favor of turning Servo into an AR vehicle.
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I'm curious why you think Servo is such an important investment compared to say Gecko which is Mozilla's only viable implementation of the web. You seem bothered at Servo's deprioritization, and not at all concerned about the state of Gecko which is chronically underfunded, IMO.
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I am concerned about Gecko underfunding. What would you estimate the total budget of Gecko engineering (the old "Platform" team) to be?
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I'm more bothered by Servo being shifted from researching platform advancements to a speculative moonshot so soon after getting a payoff from earlier platform advancements. I don't think Servo needs drastically more Mozilla-funded resources.
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What is it that you want Servo to be?
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