Gervase Markham wrote:
> Well, maybe refused is too strong, but it was strongly intimated that it
> would be very difficult to get it in, because it's "not a good use of
> time". And I ran out of enthusiasm after trying for so long (seemingly a
> common complaint among Mozilla contributors.)
Then more of us will have to bang on it.
> Forgive me for being cynical, but every time I come across an extremely
> high quality external contribution receiving the (very slow) third
> degree from a bunch of reviewers, yet I hear another (Netscape)
> super-reviewer say to his work-mate "Oh, yeah, I sr=ed your stuff. Check
> it in and see what happens" in a very offhand way, it depresses me.
I think the situation there is that they tend to have a higher level of trust,
knowing the person personally, but which may not be 100% earned. I'm _NOT_ going
to give details (to anyone, ever, even in email, because it would serve to
divide the project, so bugger off [not you Gerv]), but I've seen a "safe" check
in from an NS employee hork things, while a decent check in sits there, waiting.
That's really the one of the few drawbacks that Mozilla has with NS's large
involvement. We've got a bit of a class system.
But to be fair, I saw a large decrease in those tendencies since NS6, and and
even larger decrease is the "class" mentality since 6.1 got some great feedback.
Some good proof is taking off from 0.9.2 rather than freezing the whole tree
(like leading up to 0.6). And the good work of people like yourself and Asa has
helped a great deal. Well, maybe not Asa. ;)
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