Comments on: On the greater Mozilla community… http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/11/on-the-greater-mozilla-community/ Gen Kanai's Mozilla weblog Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:22:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gen Kanai http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/11/on-the-greater-mozilla-community/comment-page-1/#comment-55186 Gen Kanai Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:06:23 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/?p=183#comment-55186 Anonymous Coward: You should feel free to email/contact Mitchell herself about making changes to her tree metaphor if you think external contributors should be added. I appreciate the sentiment, but commenting here, on my blog, won't get that sentiment to Mitchell herself. As to your second comment about patches not reviewed, I am sure that there are patches that have been overlooked by mistake. 40% of Firefox 3 was developed by external contributors, so clearly a significant portion of patches are being reviewed (and of course reviewers are not necessarily all Mozilla Corp. employees) and are being added to trunk. If you have a specific concern, please share it here. If you have issues with the process, please pipe up and propose something new or provide constructive criticism. We're happy to hear constructive criticism. Anonymous Coward: You should feel free to email/contact Mitchell herself about making changes to her tree metaphor if you think external contributors should be added. I appreciate the sentiment, but commenting here, on my blog, won’t get that sentiment to Mitchell herself.

As to your second comment about patches not reviewed, I am sure that there are patches that have been overlooked by mistake. 40% of Firefox 3 was developed by external contributors, so clearly a significant portion of patches are being reviewed (and of course reviewers are not necessarily all Mozilla Corp. employees) and are being added to trunk.

If you have a specific concern, please share it here. If you have issues with the process, please pipe up and propose something new or provide constructive criticism. We’re happy to hear constructive criticism.

]]> By: Anonymous Coward http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/11/on-the-greater-mozilla-community/comment-page-1/#comment-55182 Anonymous Coward Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:23:51 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/?p=183#comment-55182 Note that the actual tree has no external contributors (but does have Employees). Sure, it's Open Source and people can reuse the code, but there is no indication that patches upstream will be accepted. Patches go into bugzilla, and sit for months waiting for review. Followed by some sort of comment on the patch not applying (of course, after months of trunk moving along). If your patch isn't directly helping what some core person has already planned for Firefox (not any other app) in the short term, there's really no point in bothering. Note that the actual tree has no external contributors (but does have Employees). Sure, it’s Open Source and people can reuse the code, but there is no indication that patches upstream will be accepted.

Patches go into bugzilla, and sit for months waiting for review. Followed by some sort of comment on the patch not applying (of course, after months of trunk moving along). If your patch isn’t directly helping what some core person has already planned for Firefox (not any other app) in the short term, there’s really no point in bothering.

]]> By: Ken Saunders http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/11/on-the-greater-mozilla-community/comment-page-1/#comment-55164 Ken Saunders Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:40:47 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/?p=183#comment-55164 A long post or not, it was well worth the time to read it. A long post or not, it was well worth the time to read it.

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