Always glad to correct mistaken impressions. Peter Trudelle said this in npm.browser:
"There seems to be some misconception about what open source is. The code is controlled by module owners, who are under no compulsion to do what 'the community' wants (assuming, hypothetically that the community could ever agree on anything ;-). The owners deal in code, not opinions, and they only have to answer to mozilla.org. No amount of opinion is ever going to cause or prevent a checkin, unless you convince or pay someone to write the code, and even then it has to pass review by the module owner and a super-reviewer. If anyone thinks they could do a better job than a current module owner, they should let mozilla.org know." (reposting here for greater visibility) -Ben Malodushnikh wrote: >No, by the community. Apparently we were under the mistaken impression >that this product wasn't evolved strictly in accordance with the owners' >wishes. > >How wrong we were. > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ben Goodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Shot down by who? Owners? >> >>Jesse Ruderman wrote: >> >>>Netscape recently checked in three changes that had been discussed and shot >>>down in older bugs. >>> >
