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Problems With the Firefox Development Process

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Funny Diagram by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here is a funny diagram of the Firefox Development Process.

    1. Re:Funny Diagram by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Oh yeah, that was just F U N N Y.

    2. Re:Funny Diagram by rramdin · · Score: -1, Troll

      What do you mean?!? Poop is always the funniest thing ever..... ...When you're ten.

    3. Re:Funny Diagram by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You realize that the editors can see your IP address, right?

    4. Re:Funny Diagram by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Didn't stop all the goatse trolls then, won't stop the poop trolls now...

  2. Re:Bah, what's the big deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're on a wrong web site, this one is for people with brains. Shut the fuck up.

  3. what the fuck is your point? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what is it you're driving at?

  4. FireFox is Doomed!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FireFox is doomed! IE will rule!

  5. Re:It's the Branding by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  6. Re:That's strange... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    As far as I can tell, Firefox does nothing that Opera can't do. Everything you can do in Firefox, you can do in Opera. The reverse is not true. Opera has many features that Firefox simply lacks.

    The problem here is that you're mistaking deep ignorance for knowledge; that is, you don't even know what you don't know. Firefox/Mozilla (and IE for that matter) do tons of things that Opera can't, and I make a pretty sweet living taking advantage of those capabilities.

    That you don't understand what the capabilities of those browsers are doesn't mean that they're not there, any more than your inability to make use of them makes them useless to everyone else. It only means that your worldview is so narrow that you can't even conceive of most of what is happening out there.

  7. Re:That's strange... by aussie_a · · 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.

  8. Re:It's the Branding by KarmaMB84 · · 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?