On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:15:34 +0100 (CET) Peter Weilbacher <newss...@weilbacher.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, walt wrote: > > > I had a bad problem with the firefox profile manager about a year > > ago and I decided that the devs at mozilla are not maintaining that > > code any more, so I stopped using the profile manager. > > What made you decide that? Are you a manager at Mozilla? > > > Firefox/mozilla is a very old project with limited resources. > > Yes, as a multi-million dollar company they are severely limited... The limited resources: skilled programmers who are available and willing to work for the mozilla foundation. > > The current developers are working full speed on security updates, > > which is good, but there is a lot of bitrot in their huge > > codebase. > > Huh? What do you call "bitrot" and what indication for that do you > see? Bugs that remain unfixed for years (literally). Years ago I filed several bug reports at bugzilla.mozilla.org. Most of them were confirmed by bug testers as real bugs, but most were never fixed by the developers. Then I got busy with other software projects (like gentoo) and stopped filing bugs at mozilla. The gentoo bugs I report actually get fixed most of the time and I've learned a lot from the follow-up comments.
