Hello Jet,
May I ask whether you've made any progress on this issue? Ting-Yu Lin
rightly pointed out that Core::Selection is also important and unowned.
Kind regards, Jörg.
On 26/02/2016 19:01, Jet Villegas wrote:
Thanks for posting this!
I share your concern about un-owned Core components. Ehsan Akhgari, Andrew
Overholt, and I are meeting next week to make plans for Core::Editor. I'll
make a note to also discuss Serializer and SpellChecker.
I think our first priority is to establish a clear Module Owner for Editor,
then triage the bugs and draft a project roadmap for that component. We'll
then need to determine the list of contributors who can help put code
behind those plans. Can we add you to that list?
--Jet
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Jörg Knobloch <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Mitchell,
I am writing to you to voice the following concern:
Many users not only use Firefox to "consume" web content (incl. audio and
video) but also to participate in social networks (Facebook, Twitter),
write e-mail (for example using Gmail) or do online shopping and online
banking.
For these activities they enter/type/paste information into text fields of
a web page displayed in Firefox. The core modules which handle the text
input are the modules mentioned in the subject: Core::Editor,
Core::Serializers and Core::Spelling checker.
These modules are currently unowned and have a plethora of obvious,
reproducible and annoying bugs which puzzle users and make Firefox look
bad, also in comparison with Chrome [1].
In October 2015 Ehsan stepped down as the owner of Core::Editor [2] and
this role has been vacant ever since. I don't understand the internals of
Mozilla well enough, but IMHO it seems unfortunate that these *vital*
modules receive no visible attention. What puzzles me is that some internal
refactoring does take place, at least in Core::Editor [3], but that does
not deliver improvements to the users.
I request that an owner be assigned or hired for these modules and that
these bugs get properly triaged and the more significant ones receive some
attention.
Kind regards from Berlin, Germany,
Jorg K (Mozilla contributor - www.jorgk.com/misc/Mozilla-work.pdf)
[1]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Editor&component=Serializers&component=Spelling%20checker&list_id=12876575&product=Core&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&order=bug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&limit=0
(1105 bugs, of which perhaps 5% are worth fixing)
[2]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.platform/ehsan$20editor/mozilla.dev.platform/GKZX7CrUbnY/b1sxG9ZpBgAJ
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1156062
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1190172
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191354
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191356
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