Upcoming changes to our Android repositories

[moz-mobile-admin]

📢 Hi everyone,

Today we're announcing two upcoming changes to our Android repositories and development processes that will make getting involved, building our products and shipping improvements to Firefox users simpler, easier, and a lot faster.

In the coming months, we will be consolidating the Fenix, Focus and Android Components projects into a single new Firefox-Android repository. As part of that change, we also plan to move issue tracking to Bugzilla, migrating open GitHub tickets there in the process.

Having our Android code under one roof has some obvious benefits as far as testing, CI and shipping are concerned - and we're expecting some big wins there! - but it also lowers barriers to community involvement and improves development speed. Whenever you can turn a complex process into one command in one repo everyone benefits, from partners and first-time contributors to veteran developers and release engineers alike.

Moving issue tracking to Bugzilla offers many similar benefits, including tighter coordination with Mozilla's internal teams and outside partners, as well as robust community safety tools to name a few.

Fenix, Focus and Android Components will stay on the same release cadence, we'll continue to maintain and publish components and all functionality as usual, and our artifact, package and application IDs will also stay the same.

We wanted to announce this well ahead of time: while the schedule isn't firm yet, we intend to make this change in the next small number of months. As we prepare for this change, we want to thank you all for your help and support; your work has been critical to getting Android Components, Fenix, and Focus this far. We're grateful for your contributions, and believe these changes will make it easier to continue the amazing work that has brought these projects so far. We will reach out individually on all open Pull Requests to discuss next steps, and we'll also take care of migrating open tickets, when the time comes.

If you’d like to get in touch, you can find us on Matrix in the following channels:
#fenix:mozilla.org
#focus-android:mozilla.org
#android-components:mozilla.org

Thank you!

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