On Friday, April 1, 2011, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > >> I don't find this compelling, because it assumes that the release > >> methodology of SQLite is fixed in stone. > > It would be incredibly rude of us to force an independent team of > developers to change development practices for our benefit. > > You can certainly ask if they're interested in doing so, not for "our" > benefit (whoever "our" means), but for the benefit of the Web as a whole, and > there's nothing at all rude in asking. I'd say the opposite: it's rude to > assume they wouldn't be interested, rather than asking and letting them come > to their own decision. (I don't know where the notion of "forcing" them to > do anything came from.)
I am incredibly uncomfortable with the idea of putting the responsibility of the health of the web in the hands of one project. In fact, one of the main reasons I started working at Mozilla was to prevent this. / Jonas
