Peter Trudelle wrote: > Ben Bucksch wrote: > >> IMO, the Mozilla community is the highest authority for Mozilla code. > > That would be anarchy and chaos, which is why mozilla.org has the > module owner system.
We also have Presidents or similar in most countries. However, they are supposed to do what the majority of the people what (if it's not against minorites). They merely *represent* the people. Module owners are there to streamline the system and to have somebody being responsible. This does not mean that they can do what they want. >> And I assure you that mozilla.org staff lost credits in the view on >> many contributors when approving the favicon checkin. > > nearly all decisions on this project are guaranteed to displease some > people; that is unavoidable. Note the difference between "some" and "many".
