Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > And by whose judgement of severity?
>
> The developers. They are the ones doing the fixing.
>
> > I think that the more complaints
> > there are, the higher priority it is by definition.
>
> No. There have been lots of complaints about LDAP. It is currently not a
> priority (evidenced by the fact that no-one (apart from dmose,
> occasionally) is working on it. :-)
>
> Gerv
That's my point. Mozilla itself is not designed for end users, but all
of the vendors that will make release products based on Mozilla will be
releasing to end users. It makes sense that if Mozilla does not have
feature XYZ most vendors probably don't have the time and/or resources
to add that feature, and the same with major bugs. So a vendor takes a
Mozilla distribution and adds some of their own content and releases it.
Guess what - the press and end users will berate them for the very bugs
and missing features that people were complaining about.
In the final analysis Mozilla will be making it to end users - that is
what it is designed for. When the priorities of users are effectively
ignored you get a product that those users are not going to use. It's
that simple. If very little users are using the product then the vendors
will either use a different product to make their releases, or they will
perish.
One has to wonder who Netscape (the major driving force behind Mozilla
direction at the moment), and mozilla.org think they are making a
browser for. As it is right now, there are not too many people using
Netscape 6 which was the first major release of a product based on
Mozilla. All products based on Mozilla will continue to be ignored and
scorned until the process takes into account the priorities of the
people who are supposed to be using it.
--
Jerry Baker
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