Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:47:15 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/:
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Well, the mass of innovation-resistant people posting in those
forums is at least one of the reasons why I moved away my focus
from SeaMonkey and work on making Firefox more stable (in terms of
not crashing) now.
Understood, Robert. I can quite see that from the perspective
of a developer, pushing the frontiers of science is a far more
appealing prospect than a daily grind of bug-fixing and papering
over the cracks. Unfortunately, from a user perspective, major
change is rarely welcome, whilst increased security and incremental
bug fixes are universally appreciated.
Do you guys clearly understand the SeaMonkey developers don't get
paid for their work on SeaMonkey? Once again - it is all volunteer
effort! Do you understand the maintenance of SeaMonkey involves
various compromises to fit with the ever evolving Mozilla platform?
If you want completely feature frozen product - just use whatever
version you've been satisfied with at some point in time. However
you understand you can't use just that version because of necessary
security fixes appearing in subsequent releases, or just because the
browser or another component becomes too outdated to support
required latest technologies. Note, the SeaMonkey developers don't
develop these latest technologies and they can't provide security
fixes to the platform on their own - we (the SeaMonkey users) are
all dependent on the Mozilla platform (the development of which is
mainly driven by the Firefox development).
You can either continue to bitch, or get your hands dirty by keeping
track of how the Mozilla platform evolves, then get some technical
knowledge to understand how this affects SeaMonkey, and then
probably come up with some constructive comments... or code patches
you're ready to maintain.
And of course, if you could come up with a successful business model
which would fund the development of SeaMonkey in a direction you
want - you're welcome to make it true.
--
Stanimir
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