On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 5:56:05 PM UTC+1, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: > Just to be 100% clear, not all of those 750 bugs are open! I was just > commenting on overall trends, ie when/where do people file bugs. Still, even if they were not actively taken care of or just filed out of hatred; each, filing and maintaining bug reports are consuming time and sometimes (more often than not, YMMV) nerves. Some bugs and feature requests I filed got no response and were fixed a year later, so I'm quite happy if I get a response within 24h.
DISCLAIMER: From here on, just rambling; nothing bad or useful. More often than not, FOSS projects are abandoned, because their original maintainer shifted priorities to something else. I suspect that, at some time, someone in the Mozilla Firefox Community was passionate enough about RSS/Atom to hack a contentHandler and an acceptable UI. And maybe somebody else thought Thunderbird was a good idea, and even though Mozilla abandoned the project it's still, by far(!), one of the best frontends that support IDLEing multiple IMAP servers at once. Every other project I've looked at is built on fear of race conditions and inconsistencies. And rightfully so, they perished the thought. More often than not, I find myself in steaming hatred against closed source operating systems, because I can't change their behavior to my needs. Nor do I know somebody who works at $company so I can voice a (subjectively) valid opinion, w/o being drowned by the hate train of consumers that values tradition over productivity. So I'm glad if there is at least a possibility of having a civil discussion. At least from my perspective, 2017's been wildly successful for Firefox and Mozilla as Rust/Servo finally helped Firefox break down one of the largest barriers to multi-threading workload. And even though Mozilla had some major mis-steps (like the Test Pilot thing), for me it's fine as long as people like Steve Klabnik are not penalized for speaking up against their employer when there's something they don't feel fine with. That creates a sense of community, something I deeply care about. Even though I seldomly participate, I enjoy to have the possibility. So again, thank all of you for your answers! best regards, -1 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
