Dear Mozilla Governance, I already posted my thoughts about the pocket integration itself. Per Gijs, which from my memory is the only person who has directly addressed the questions he did despite his assertion that that wasn't true, it sounds like Mozilla is going forward with one of the paths I was okay with so I'm decently happy with that.
That being said, as people in Mozilla have acknowledged multiple times, this was handled very very badly from an openness/PR standpoint. It got worse when when Sheeri chipped in because, regardless of intentions, their comments sounded extremely condescending and dismissive. Perhaps certain people should be encouraged not to participate directly in public discussions for the good of Mozilla's reputation. I know that sounds awful, but some people just aren't good at talking to communities. I'm one of them, and I generally keep quiet. In any case, from what I'm hearing it would improve things to have an official (i.e. not a random statement on the mailing list from a random Mozilla employee) statement from Mozilla announcing future intentions for this "Pocket API"(What's the official name for this since it isn't just for Pocket?). Preferably a roadmap/rough timeline would be included. By the way, why the hell are there hard ship dates for features at Mozilla? Part of what makes open source software great is that people generally get to work on things until they feel it is good before releasing it, unlike in most proprietary software. Personally, I feel it would have been a better decision to delay the "Pocket API" feature until it was generalized to work with other providers but, as Mozilla employees have pointed out, there are a lot of factors involved with such a decision. In any case, this whole thing has left a bad taste in my mouth about Mozilla. I actually did use to consider Mozilla on a similar level as the FSF and EFF(obviously from ignorance). I no longer do, and this makes me sad. I used to be hardcore dedicated to using Firefox and recommend it to everyone who listens based on the philosophy behind it. It looks like the philosophy wasn't what I thought it was, so I will now only be able to recommend Firefox on technical merits. Thanks, Christopher Carpenter _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
