John Boyle wrote:
I have been a LOYAL user of Netscape/SeaMonkey since Netscape
4, which I made clear in one of my messages!
That doesn't change that you are a destructive voice now, apparently,
and accusing the people of only bad things who are in fact donating a
whole lot of their free time to improving SeaMonkey and keeping it alive
at all.
When I mentioned the word
"Invention" I clearly meant the Invention of 2.0, which despite my
non-programmer background, was even said by one of your supporters or
even you., to be a clean DEPARTURE from All the old code!
This "invention" was and is the only way to keep the suite alive, at
least from our point of view.
If you don't share that view, feel free to assemble your own team and
develop the old code in a different way, it's all open and we are not
afraid of competition.
Why couldn't you have
listened to your users more than you did or are doing NOW?
I and our whole team are constantly listening to a whole lot of users -
just that not all users are thinking the same way, and some times one
has to make decisions. Once you have leadership experience somehwere,
you'll agree on that point, at least.
Why couldn't
Any of your team first do a survey to see what the majority of SeaMonkey
were using for OS's , for one example?
You think that 95% of our users are on Windows, some 60% of those on
Windows XP, does change anything? Why that? Do you think it would be
better top ignore the 5% on Mac and Linux and stop development for those?
Then, along with all the NEW
code, you could have put out clearer instructions for the vast majority
of your user base, instead of Ignoring that very same user base? If you
did not have the time to do so, than why didn't you make it clear and
Ask one of the users who might have some experience in writing training
material
Oh, we did ask that quite often and still do, you just seem to be
reading those things. And you're joining our testday today, right?
Why do you keep on ignoring all the CRIES FOR
HELP,?
You don't seem to be reading this group, all team is all over the place
and helping those people who constructively ask for help instead of just
shout at us for being jerks or something.
I can
say that your effort at putting the program together, incomplete as it
may be, is highly commendable
Thanks, at least *something* positive you can see.
Unfortunately, we are a very small team and cannot do everything at
once. We know, we can need improvement on a whole lot of things, and we
welcome anyone trying to sincerely help us making it better.
Be constructive, help to improve things, and magically, things will
improve for yourself. That's how SeaMonkey, the whole open source
movement, and actually, most of our modern society work.
Robert Kaiser
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