Stupid Contrarianism strikes again

Posted Mar 9, 2005 22:39 UTC (Wed) by dang (guest, #310)
In reply to: Stupid Contrarianism strikes again by b7j0c
Parent article: Firefox Is Heading Towards Trouble (eWeek)

According to the article, it isn't that developers are disgruntled:

"In nearly three years, we haven't built up a community of hackers around Firefox, for a myriad of reasons, and now I think we're in trouble. Of the six people who can actually review in Firefox, four are AWOL, and one doesn't do a lot of reviews"

Dunno if the quoted comment is true, but if it is then this is an honest problem and one that has been live for mozilla for a long while ( and is a standing concern for all open source projects ). So the interesting questions are these: is the community of skilled Firefox hackers drying up? Why? And what can be done?

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Stupid Contrarianism strikes again

Posted Mar 10, 2005 1:10 UTC (Thu) by b7j0c (guest, #27559) [Link] (1 responses)

If there are holes, they will get filled. Hell, people are still hacking on dinosaurs like Emacs.

Not to say the new generation of coders won't fork, but thats not always bad (see X.org).

Stupid Contrarianism strikes again

Posted Mar 10, 2005 9:55 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, X.org had the old generation forking too; in that it was similar to the egcs fork, more a way to forcibly switch maintainership than anything else. (The egcs fork was done in a much more civilized fashion, though, with eventual official status and no permanent name change).