Simon P. Lucy wrote:
> is it a Good Thing to be tied to Netscape IS in this way still? Are
> there no open alternatives?
No, there aren't, too my knowledge.
If you thought of Sourceforge: they are loosers IMO. The software is
inferior (have you seen the bug database and other apps? A joke!) and
the servers have such a bad network connection that it is hardly
believable. I have seen people complaining that they were unable to
download their own automated builds for over a week, since the
connection always dropped. Mailinglist posts often are distributed only
hours later. I don't know why all that many developer are willing to
accept that. I'd rather pay a small fee to work in Mozilla than accept that.
The best solution IMO would be to make mozilla.org's IT independant from
Netscape's, but still paid by Netscape. That doesn't necessarily have to
cost more. Mozilla needs custom solutions anyway (see bug 58300 for an
example).
