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0 pointskibwen10y ago0 comments

Having a ten year-old bug isn't a mark of shame, if anything it's laudable when a project doesn't take the easy way out by silently closing ancient bugs like most projects do. Bugs should be fixed according to importance and priority, not simply according to age.

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Aldo_MX10y ago

The problem is that "importance and priority" are pretty much subjective terms, for example, for many people Hello or Pocket were everything but a priority.

kibwenOP10y ago

The solution is that it's an open source project. If you disagree with the priorities of the other developers, then you are empowered to take the initiative.

alphapapa10y ago

Okay, I would like to remove Hello and Pocket from Firefox. Do you think Mozilla will merge my pull request that I am empowered to initiate?

kibwenOP10y ago

As though I said anything about merging into upstream, or about Hello/Pocket, or about "open source" meaning "dictating development with random patches". :P But sure, if there were a ten year-old bug about removing them, then I would certainly expect them to welcome such a patch.

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Aldo_MX10y ago

The problem is that "importance and priority" are pretty much subjective terms, for example, for many people Hello or Pocket were everything but a priority.

kibwenOP10y ago

The solution is that it's an open source project. If you disagree with the priorities of the other developers, then you are empowered to take the initiative.

alphapapa10y ago

Okay, I would like to remove Hello and Pocket from Firefox. Do you think Mozilla will merge my pull request that I am empowered to initiate?

kibwenOP10y ago

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