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Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-will-get-the-kids dept.

sebFlyte writes "After the reports of problems with Firefox' development earlier this week there are now rumblings about more serious problems with the Mozilla Suite. Some developers want to spin the suite out as a community project that the foundation has no responsibility for, and others want to create a Firefox Foundation to deal with the success of the standalone browser."

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  1. Google to the "rescue" by gpinzone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If GBrowser is for real, why couldn't Google essentially take over by forking eithe Mozilla or firefox (or both)? They could become the effective owners of the software. Would that be considered good or evil?

  2. CVS politics by r00t · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Big projects using CVS somehow all wind up with
    with nasty politics. This is because CVS commit
    rights give a very visible rank to some people.
    It only gets worse if you add "core" membership.

    Linus keeps things fuzzy. The innermost circle
    of developers is poorly defined. This lets
    everyone think they are "in" or "out" as best
    suits their personality.

    I've seen the problem on wikis too, with admin
    rights. Giving out explicit rank is dumb.

  3. Re:This is bad because: by selectspec · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...after receiving carte-blanche from the US Bush/Cheney regime...

    I'd just like to point out for the record that Microsoft employees contribute more to the Democratic party than any other company in the United States and that the Microsoft itself has made only negligible political contributions to both parties. Bill Gates is certainly no conservative.

    The idea that the Bush/Cheney regime as you call it should be determining whether a browser should be embedded into an OS is rediculous. The last thing we want is our elected officials telling us how to package and sell our software. Let's press them on software patents, not bundling issues.

    --

    Someone you trust is one of us.

  4. Re:pointless? by starwed · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Lets be clear on the actual discussions taking place here...
    1. MoFo doesn't want to have to fully support two differant projects; they don't have the resources to do that. So it's proposed that there won't be a 1.8 final release, as that would take a lot of QA work and entail still more work later on to keep up with security patches.
    2. Obviously some people don't like this. Oddly enough most of them are users of the suite.
    3. Several developers have stated that mofo shouldn't continue suite releases, at least not in the same way. None of them have suggested spinning firefox off into a seperate foundation.
    4. Slashdot has posted an inflammatory article about the issue; very few people commenting have bothered to go to the primary sources to see whats going on. (Surprise! :))