michael lefevre wrote: >IMO, you either need user forums for mozilla, or you need for mozilla.org >to limit the releases - maybe instead of having the release builds >promoted from the mozilla site, they could just give the release code to >Beonex or Netscape, who would quickly distribute a release closely based >on the mozilla code, and then act as a filter for user support and bug >reports. Some of those that are really doing development, at any level, >would hang around in both the user groups and the dev groups and could >enable communication between the two. > I completely agree with you. But unfortunately, I was unable to convince mozilla.org from either solution. Feel free to try, maybe it shows them that this is really true and I'm not just saying that for my own advantage.
>I'm not sure, but at the moment, but I could imagine there are more users >running mozilla release builds than are running Beonex, which makes no >sense... but the way to solve this would be to link to the Beonex >downloads from the mozilla.org homepage, not to make pleas in the >newsgroup that won't get seen... > Quite true. But I don't have write access to the Mozilla homepage, just to the newsgroups. My plea was directed more to the people who reply to and/or continuosly post offtopic or inappropriate stuff here.
