I think someone at mozilla.org really needs to think about how important
it is to them to get external contributions to Mozilla. I've been using
Mozilla nightlies for ages, and a while ago switched to compiling my own
builds, with the intention of contributing by fixing the occasional bug.
I saw a bug that scratched my itch and submitted a patch
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49164). That was over two
months ago, and the patch hasn't been checked in, in spite of being
reviewed as OK. I've seen mentions of plenty of other bugs in this same
situation (there are over 1100 bugs flagged with the patch keyword, but
not all of those are "stale"). What kind of message is this is sending
to potential contributors?
Cheers,
Len.