Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
>   
>> In my mind, it boils down to a question of why we would require, say, the
>> source for Firefox to be copied from the upstream community to a SFW source
>> tree, compiled by SFW maintainers, and pushed to a repository, rather than
>> having the firefox community itself create ips packages and push them out
>> directly?
>>     
>
> Because the firefox community has no interest in doing so.   The only reason
> Solaris or OpenSolaris builds of firefox appear on Mozilla.org is because
> Sun's browser team downloads the source, builds them, and pushes them back
> to the community.
>   
Perhaps this is a naive question, but doesn't that mean the Sun browser 
team is functioning
as a de facto member of the Firefox community?

Dana


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