Jens Hatlak wrote:
For the latter part: That's because we don't do that. It would probably bring development to a full halt (and I think it already is way too slow, but I wouldn't be surprised if we disagreed about that).
Ideas for future versions are usually discussed in Bugzilla bugs or on SeaMonkey Status Meetings (which happen in the open on IRC, and we provide meeting notes on the wiki). Changes, especially core code ones, are usually only discussed in the respective Bugzilla bugs, or maybe in some cases in meetings that I don't attend (don't know). For SM changes it's similar (except the meetings part); if developers are likely to disagree or need feedback on technical aspects, the m.d.a.seamonkey newsgroup will be the place of further discussion (unless it's somehow confidential, for which we have mailing lists with a limited audience). For user facing changes that cannot be turned off (happens rarely for SM-only code), discussion might happen here (but no guarantee).
OK, I have no idea of what "M.D.A.Seamonkey" is a contraction, but as I read neither Usenet news nor IRC I am clearly excluded (by my own choice) from many of your deliberations. However, I would like to ask you one specific question : when you wrote (in another context)
Hmm, I don't feel this is serious enough. It doesn't seem anything stops working through this. Actually I'm trying to /reduce/ the amount of things we list under Known Issues. Sure, the easiest way would be to fix this issue, but until that happens, what's the impact of this issue on users other than being an annoying?
what exactly did you mean by "reduce". Do you mean "fix the issues, so they can be removed from the list", or "filter the recorded issues in terms of their impact as perceived by the developers" ? I hope very much that you meant the former, because the latter looks ominously like papering over the cracks in a manner that one /might/ associate with proprietary software but which seems very much at odds with the open-source philosophy on which Seamonkey is predicated. Philip Taylor _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
