Problems With the Firefox Development Process

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 6, 2005 @06:39PM from the eyes-on-the-prize dept.

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."

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Re:It's the Branding by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-06 20:27 · Score: 0, Troll

Let me guess, he's going to expect everybody to call it "GNU/Firefox" from now on.

Clever programmer, but clearly nuts.
Re:That's strange... by aussie_a · 2005-03-06 22:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Thanks very much for not mentioning some of those Firefox only features. For a minute there I was afraid your post may be insightful.
Re:It's the Branding by KarmaMB84 · 2005-03-07 01:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Maybe Mozilla.org should have avoided attaching their viral trademarks to every nook and cranny of the *open source software* with no ability to easily remove it. Are they still shipping third party copyrighted graphics too?