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David Gerard writes "Asa Dotzler from the Mozilla Foundation invited questions on his blog on the Mozilla release process. The answers are up."
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His answers can be summarized as: "It's extremely difficult for me to generalize here." If his blog were a /. post it would get modded -1, Redundant, there is nothing in his answers that people did not know before, he just explained he can't explain how they decide.
Why mod this insightful? There is nothing insightful about this. This is just as much of a troll as posting long stories about the GNAA taking over some company, or that horrific Old Ike story. All this guy did was copy & paste someone else's work for his own benefit. It's like going to a famous author's book premiere party, and trying to look good by reading the book out loud to anyone who'll listen.
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I am scientifically inaccurate.
The questions at the end, asked by 'Doug', sound like those of a CMM auditor/appraiser, with vocabulary like "according to a documented procedure" and "affected stakeholders". Sounds to me like someone is interested is assessing mozilla at CMM Level 2...
CMM is a 'process improvement methodology' from Carnagie Melon called the 'Capability Maturity Model'. It is similar in intent, although not at all in style or implementation to process improvement metholodogies like 'Extreme Programming' and 'Scrum'. For level 2, there are 6 'process areas' - the questions asked here are from the area of 'Software Configuration Management'.
It was very interesting that he was able to answer 'yes' to each question, and point to the 'documentation artifact' that proves his point. That is exactly what you are supposed to be able to do during a formal assessment. I'm going to bookmark this and save it for the next time someone rants about 'quality of open source'.
As far as I know, Mozilla suite and Firefox are different scripts running on the same engine (as thunderbird). So, bugs on the engine are corrected on the same time for both, but bugs ont he scripts (inteface) are unique for each one. Yes, the app competes, isn't it good?
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I use Mozilla at home because I want an integrated browser/mail solution. I use Firefox at work because Outlook/MS Office is mandated.
If I had a choice I would use only Mozilla because, at this time, Firefox and Thunderbird are not well enough integrated. Running both is also extra memory and disk overhead.
Firefox/Mozilla usage shot from 8% to almost 20% in the last year. (source: http://www.w3schools.com/
Of course more W3Schools viewers are going to use web browsers based on the Gecko engine; being web developers, they are more likely to have heard of Firefox and to appreciate its value than the general population, who unfortunately still thinks the blue 'e' is Teh Intarweb(tm). This skews the statistics. At least W3Schools admits its bias:
Show me the stats for a more general-interest web site, and I'll change my tune.