1220184 - Stop supporting Gingerbread, bumping minSdkVersion to 15

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Android Studio and Gradle Integration, defect)

Description

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

It sucks.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Note that we have no concrete timeline for this yet.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

API 14 has ~0 users, so let's just drop 14, too.

Comment 3

[:Margaret Leibovic]

What release are we targeting actually dropping support for Gingerbread? 48, right?

Comment 4

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

yes, 47 notification, 48 EOL

Comment 5

[:Margaret Leibovic]

Richard or Nick, no rush here, but can one of you own writing the patch for this for 48?

Comment 6

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Sure. Note that most of the work is in stopping the build jobs, removing Gingerbread versions from FTP and the website, etc.; in-tree stuff has to wait for that, and is mostly going to be a bunch of `hg rm` calls.

Comment 7

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

rnewman is the expert here :)  I can be backup.

Comment 8

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Attachment: MozReview Request: Bug 1220184 - Eliminate Gingerbread compatibility. r?froydnj r?nalexander

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/36351/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/36351/

Comment 9

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Comment on attachment 8723100 [details]
MozReview Request: Bug 1220184 - Eliminate Gingerbread compatibility. r?froydnj r?nalexander

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/36351/#review32915

Fine by me.  There are important consumers that need to co-ordinate here: releng (jlund?) needs to remove (or disable, and then remove) the consuming jobs; the update/Balrog team needs to decommission the endpoints or whatever; and the ateam (gbrown!) needs to start filing tickets to remove the API <= 14 support code in the tree.

Onward!

Comment 10

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

Comment on attachment 8723100 [details]
MozReview Request: Bug 1220184 - Eliminate Gingerbread compatibility. r?froydnj r?nalexander

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/36351/#review32987

Less code is more better.

Comment 11

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/c0d4bc8df842e781f81bef52581a2416c5e66bc2
Bug 1220184 - Eliminate Gingerbread compatibility. r=froydnj, r=nalexander

Comment 12

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c0d4bc8df842

Comment 13

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Barbara, just to give you an update - there are only a few outstanding blockers (bug 1250999 - stop building/testing, bug 1245567 - remove download links/builds), and then lots of little code cleanup (where there are some assignees/mentees, but I've pinged on some bugs where there hasn't been any movement). So this is effectively done, except for removing code that we don't need anymore.

Comment 14

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

Ok, thanks Chenxia, so I will still leave the Aha card "in development" and let you tell me once the blocking bugs are fixed.

Comment 15

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Barbara: Gingerbread is dead! We just have cleanup to do, to remove useless code from our apk (to make it smaller). There are some mentees involved in these bugs, but they're not feature-critical.

Comment 16

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

Thanks, I changed the status to "ready to ship"