On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <pidgeo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm sorry that it makes you sad, but Mozilla has explicitly decided to >> prioritize the bar to entry for Firefox development, and the speed of >> development of Firefox, at the expense of Thunderbird (and seamonkey). And >> as Firefox development moves faster toward things such as stopping >> supporting XUL addons, removing support for heavyweight themes, and even >> cutting XUL altogether, we should all expect the impedance mismatch to >> become worse. We are not only saying that you don't have to fix comm-central >> apps: we're also saying that we don't *want* core contributors to spend time >> on comm-central. > > Except that to demand contributors don't care about comm-central would be to > demand of your employees that they should be jerks to the wider open-source > community.
I don't think this is at all true. Not actively working on comm-central is not "being a jerk" to comm-central based projects. Just like the libpng developers aren't jerks to gecko when they make changes that affect gecko, without also providing a Gecko patch. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
