Problems With the Firefox Development Process 563
An anonymous reader writes "Mike
Connor, one of the core Firefox
developers, is raising a flag concerning the Mozilla Firefox
methodology of development. From his blog: "In nearly three years, we haven't built up a community of hackers around Firefox, for a myriad of reasons, and now I think were in
trouble. Of the six people who can actually review in Firefox, four are AWOL, and one doesn't do a lot of reviews." In an earlier
entry, he raised concrete concerns about the community involvement. Asa Dotzler
recently elaborated
on the process, as previously covered on Slashdot."
M$ Conspiracy? (Score:2, Funny)
Bah, what's the big deal? (Score:3, Funny)
Firefox (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why can Microsoft et. al get good people... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, why don't you then? Or did you not notice that "Donate" button on your first link?
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
The number one problem with Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)
In order to help out the FireFox team, here are my suggestions for new, catchier names:
Fox Fire
Brush Fire
Brush Fox
Foxy Britches
Fancy Pants
Panda Britches
Moz Illa Than You
Moz Def
Linky Clicky
Clicky Linky
Spider Webby
The Amazing Spider Webby
Ultra Browser
Supa Browsa
Supa Browsa II: Supa Browsa Remix
and finally,
Internet Explorer II: Electric Bugaloo
Solution (Score:3, Funny)
Bill Gates says "i told ya so"
They don't need no stinking development process (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Firefox (Score:2, Funny)
Dude? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Coders != Maintainers (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Firefox is also Mozilla (Score:3, Funny)
No other browser supports the Abe Vigoda Status extension.
Time to fork Firefox (Score:1, Funny)
Re:They often act out their anger. (Score:3, Funny)
; )
Re:Firefox is mostly a cute interface (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The number one problem with Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Firefox people are great compared to Micros (Score:3, Funny)
I don't normally buy into the conspiracy theories about Microsoft, but I am absolutely 100% certain that the steady degradation of the dos box is a classic case of MS trying to herd people away from the dark side. The dos box used to work, and work well. MS have steadily - through 95, 98, and on and on in the rolecall of fucked up apologies for operating systems - made it more and more fucked.
It is absurdly obvious that to them the dos box is an abhorrent reminder of an earlier day, a trojan horse through which command line devil worshippers can work their evil, avoiding the safe, closeted world of Microsoft's GUIs.
They would absolutely love to get rid of the dos box forever, but even they need it - for example, when I was foolish enough to update the definitions in my Microsoft Spyware beta, it trashed my Microsoft firewall! MOTHER FUCKERS!! What the FUCK are you thinking! The good old dos box was the only way to recover (if you call running Microsoft's firewall "recovery"), allowing me to type in some cryptic MS bullshit "netsh Winsock reset" that rebuilds my tcp stack (or something like that). I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IT DOES!!! Why the FUCK don't you just leave the FUCKING firewall ALONE!!!!!!
Its been a bad day dealing with MS bullshite today. No more posting tonight I feel.
The four AWOL people (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Back on topic: (Score:2, Funny)
Oh really?
>> and I have a Ph.D in comp sci.
Ah! There's your problem!
Re:Firefox is mostly a cute interface (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds one of this anecdote [langston.com].
Re:It's the Branding (Score:3, Funny)
Just firefox a page on trademarks to read about how they become generic... I can thunderbird one to you if you like...
Re:It's the Branding (Score:3, Funny)
Except Linus has no problem with this - he has openly stated that he _wants_ the packagers to patch and stablise the kernel for the end-lusers.
By your reasoning, if I had a Ferrari and I changed the stereo I would nolonger be able to call it a Ferrari because it's now a derived work... (Sorry, every slashdot arguement has to ahve a car analogy
Re:The number one problem with Firefox? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Firefox is mostly a cute interface (Score:5, Funny)
Respectfully, Albert Gore