Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
The only thing I'm genuinely afraid of is that the last few people who care about, and have enough knowledge to develop and maintain SeaMonkey might lose interest because of so much unreasonable criticism going on. From my point of view every change to the SeaMonkey 2+ versions is well justified and reflects the capabilities of the SeaMonkey team. This is what I've been trying to explain previously, and further below.
Your reply leads me to think you don't really understand the status quo, although you state so. Most of the features people vocally criticize the SeaMonkey developers about are not written by the SeaMonkey devs themselves, but by the core Mozilla platform team. The SeaMonkey devs are far too few in order to provide maintenance of old code, they have not really written, or to implement it anew, on top of the evolving Mozilla platform.
You are probably almost certainly correct. The problem is, the release notes do not provide any of this background -- we the users have no way of knowing which features were deliberately introduced by the Seamonkey team, which were carried over from Firefox/Gecko because they appeared to the Seamonkey team to be a good idea, and which were carried over because although the Seamonkey team viewed them as deleterious, they lacked the resources to replace them with something better (or to omit them completely).
The SeaMonkey devs try their best to preserve much of the original Mozilla Suite features perceived as most important to people, but it is not always possible because of major core changes introduced by the platform. I guess this is something vocally criticizing people in here can't really understand, being not interested in how the Mozilla platform evolves, and then how it affects the SeaMonkey project, which apart from some hardware infrastructure is not sponsored by the Mozilla organization in any way (as far as I'm aware).
Please see above.
And finally, as Robert Kaiser have already pointed out, innovation-resistance won't make SeaMonkey any better.
No, but it may help to make it less worse. Philip Taylor _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
