On 6/18/15 12:38 AM, Sheeri Cabral wrote:
There's respectfully asking "why was this decision made?" and "sharing
concerns" and then there's aggressively hounding with a never-ending
stream of questions. I feel like, at this point, as explanations have
been given, this conversation is tipping into the latter.
I'm not sure if you've read all the comments in this thread, but if you
do you'll see that some basic questions haven't been answered:
- Is the plan actually to open this feature up with a documented API and
in a way that doesn't privilege a single proprietary service?
- If so:
- When?
- How can we reconcile that with the way this feature has been
developed so far (in secret, not on the normal release track, neither
with a public API nor positioned as one, and with trademarks in the pref
and the toolbar)?
- What can we do to help move the process along?
If you have answers for these questions, please share them. If not, I'm
not sure why you're trying to derail the conversation before they're
answered.
Saying, "hey, these people are experts, are you an expert in this
particular field?" is NOT an insult. My specialty is databases, and if
I started hounding Finance, it's perfectly reasonable for someone to
point out that hey, I'm not a Finance expert, maybe those people know
just a bit more than I do, and I should accept what they're saying,
even if I don't agree with it or 100% understand it. In fact, it's
someone pointing out that perhaps I should have compassion and
respect. Asking me to respect others is not an insult to me.
I think your previous message [1] was grossly inappropriate coming from
a Mozilla employee and deserves an apology, not a clarification. We're
not discussing database design or tax law. The concepts here —
transparency, privacy, software freedom, interoperability, the
commercial/non-commercial balance — are central to the Mozilla mission
and basic principles of FOSS development, and to suggest that the people
posting here haven't thought about or don't understand those issues
simply because they don't work for Mozilla is offensive. Beyond that,
this was by and large a perfectly respectful discussion on both sides
(with a few exceptions, of which you're now one) before you showed up
and told a community of open-source contributors to "Give it a rest and
let the experts handle their jobs".
[1]
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8tejs/24XlPXQddTgJ
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