Re: Notes of June 30 teleconference

Hi Marcos,
>> * after discussion with the Director, the likely next step for Battery
>> will be to publish an updated Proposed Recommendation (Dom in charge,
>> pun intended)
> 
> Mozilla's DOM Team is considering removing the Battery API from Gecko
> because of the recent abuse by companies like Uber [1] - and because
> of a lack of credible set of use cases. Abuses like that harm users
> and the credibility of apps in general.

Thanks for letting us know, that's indeed important information to
determine our next steps.

Given this, I would like to suggest that we should instead of a new
Proposed Recommendation, fall back to Candidate Recommendation where we
can evaluate the expected future implementations of the API, or evaluate
mitigation strategies to the concerns you mentioned.

Frederick, Anssi, what do you think? There is a certain amount of time
sensitiveness to this: we owe the Advisory Committee an update on the
Battery API (since they reviewed it as a Proposed Recommendation quite a
while ago), so I would like whatever next step we choose to be put in
place next week if possible.

Dom

> [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/uber-knows-when-your-phone-is-about-to-run-out-of-battery-a7042416.html

Received on Friday, 1 July 2016 08:12:34 UTC