So could someone explain to us non app programmers a bit here?
What I gather from this is there is some mammoth back end automatic
build system that takes the code base and spits out the various flavors
(does this mean both language and OS builds?) of the releasable code.
The system has needed to change over the years for various reasons and
maintaining this system takes a huge effort that just isn't manageable
with the small team and this is holding up releases both in terms of
actually building the code base but also putting resources into
maintaining this system that could be put into the actual code base
improvements.
So far do I have this correct?
What I don't get is, as I understanding it nightly builds are still
happening and people are "hand" compiling various code bases into
"pseudo" released code.
So my question is are the devs making this too hard on themselves? If
maintaining some sort of automated build environment is unmanageable yet
people are able to compile the code and get it to people in a way that
works then might, this time, a more brute force approach where the code
is hand compiled make more sense until/unless there are more volunteers?
As a long time Seamonkey user it is hard to not see the handwriting on
the wall. More and more websites are not working correctly (even with
spoofing) and it is painfully slow. If FF didn't suck so much when i
keep trying (or other browsers didn't have show stopping issues for me)
it I would be long gone, but the number of websites that no longer work
or work well is becoming a huge issue and may force my hands if SM can't
get up to semi parity in website rendering with other browsers.
So in the end the question is, can the limited SM team do anything to
change to be more efficient given the limited resources they have and
are they being hindered by trying to do it the way that Mozilla
foundation does it when for this small project there are better ways?
On 2/17/2019 10:10 PM, Ant wrote:
https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2019/02/18/all-humors-aside/
A long read. :(
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