David Coppit wrote:
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> Okay, so if I understand you correctly, the Mozilla development team has
>
> defined the boundaries of what is considered to be part of the
> development effort, and what is left to user agents.
The Mozilla development community, with technical leadership from
Mozilla Module Owners determine what code gets checked into
cvs.mozilla.org. If there are conflicts between Mozilla hackers and
Module Owners then mozilla.org staff will intervine and try to resolve
the conflict. If you write a spell checker for Mozilla and a Module
owner rejects your contribution (unlikely) send an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Until then there really isn't an issue here.
So, for example,
> we won't hear "Mozilla is not an end-user application" when people
> complain about the mail/news text editor, because the editor is
> considered to be a part of Mozilla.
It isn't just considered to be a part of Mozilla. The editor _is_ a part
of Mozilla. You shouldn't hear "Mozilla is not an end-user application"
except when you make requests for branding, distribution and support or
when you make requests that mozilla.org direct development away from
core technologies and toward branding, distribution or support.
In contrast, spell checking is not
> considered part of Mozilla (although someone could still contribute it).
It's not just not considered a part of Mozilla. Spell checking _is_not_
a part of Mozilla because no one's stepped up to the plate to implement
and contribute code.
When you say "I won't help test Mozilla because it doesn't have a
spellchecker" my response will probably be "We're accepting patches :)"
and "you don't need a spell checker to test the rest of the app" and if
you further complain that the lack of a spell checker makes Mozilla
unusable for "end users" I will probably point you to Netscape 6.1 which
does have a spell checker and is probably quite usable for "end users".
--Asa
