Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
What we need (IMHO) is a genuine debate between users and
developers; a little less sniping, and a better appreciation
by each side of the wishes of, and constraints on, the other
side, would go a long way towards ensuring a viable future
for this most valuable suite of software.
What you have to realize is that it is not a debate that will foster
development, bug fixing, and growth of SeaMonkey; Nor is it a "us vs
them" situation, though it seems like you are trying to make it so.
The developers are also users, some users are also testers.
It is impossible to satisfy everyone 100% of the time, even if we had 2
thousand paid developers working on SeaMonkey 72 hours a week each.
Likewise with the same manpower it would be impossible to squish every
bug, or control every action in Core Gecko. [With that manpower it would
be *easier* to choose to provide a longer-lived security release, but
thats a different story]
We all want the same thing, SeaMonkey to Succeed! Remember that, and
remember that we do read and care about your [regular users] thoughts.
Sometimes tradeoffs are necessary, sometimes new features are necessary.
Sometimes features "you" (and us) have come to love about the Suite are
basically killed off in Core Gecko and we are unable to rectify those
deficiencies easily. [Other times we can rectify them just fine, --
Preferences Manager is one of those cases where we were able to keep the
User Interface we have come to love]
--
~Justin Wood (Callek), SeaMonkey Council Member
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