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Chief Lizard Wrangler axed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thats-not-so-good dept.

Kalak writes: "MozillaQuest is reporting that Mitchell Baker was laid off by Netscape back on August 23. True to form, there are also discussions on this on bug #96747." She spoke at OSCON and I was pretty impressed. She seemed legitimately committed to the mozilla project being a successful open source project. Not sure how this bodes for Moz itself, but it sure is unfortunate.

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  1. Accurate information here by Satai · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mozillazine has information about it here. MozillaQuest is and has been unreliable. See MozillaQuestQuest for more information.

    1. Re:Accurate information here by ajs · · Score: 4, Informative
      Contradiction coming... wait for it...
      For all the flaming of MozillaQuest by the [...] late, buggy, and ugly Mozilla project [and] its small remaining core of advocates [...]
      [snipped from the beginning and end of the post to show the contrast in tone]
      This is called flaming. MozillaQuest is factually inaccurate from time to time (though, so is the rest of the tech media). The problem isn't that. The problem is that MozillaQuest reports only part of the story. This story, for example, never reported that, while she was being laid off, she was also going to continue working on the project.

      So called "delays" are often clarifications in the time-line (where no dates were previously available). This may or may not be an inaccuracy, depending on how you look at it, but is clearly a misrepresentation of the state of Mozilla development.

      Mozilla is, for the record, the browser/mail agent that I've been using as my sole browser for the last six months. So far, I've had less crashes than IE, and far fewer bug-related complaints than with NS4. And yet, according to MozillaQuest, Mozilla is still too buggy for anyone to use....
  2. MozillaQuest not to be trusted by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    In general it is good practice to avoid reading this website if you're interested in accurate reporting about Mozilla or mozilla.org (probably anyhing else for that matter). With articles like "Netscape Denies It Uses Mozilla Code in Netscape 6.1" you have to wonder...

    Anyway, if you want real information about what's going on why not ask the folks actually involved. Mitchell Baker (still chief lizard wrangler) had this to say in the mozilla news groups.

  3. Re:Please don't link to bugzilla from the front pa by cetan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know this is redundant to a post I made below, but I put up a mirror here:

    http://www.necrosys.net/mirrors/bug_96747.html

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    In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!