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