Followup: modularity, WebExtensions, and going faster

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I spent a week writing a thing about modularity, webextensions, and going
faster. I think it's important for us to decide the module structure of our
code especially as we start shipping independent modules/going faster. And
I believe that having better module structure, boundaries, and
documentation is critical to our teams being more agile and also attracting
contributors to the project.

http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2016-09-03/modularity-and-webextensions/

I personally think that we should double down on WebExtensions as a model
and start using that for large parts of Firefox. But Andy McKay and Rob
Helper had some good counter-thoughts and I've asked them to post here to
elaborate.

In the post I asked everyone to send followups to firefox-dev, so I wanted
to start a thread here to collect responses. Over the next months I'd like
this to turn into a firm decision about how we're going to build system
addons; but I'd like to start by seeing what feedback people have and even
whether I've framed the problem correctly.

--BDS
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