Re: Firebug internals discussion?

Andreas M wrote:
> On 05.08.2008 03:27 John J. Barton wrote
> 
>> Would the readers of this newsgroup object if we started discussing
>> Firebug internal code here?
> 
> Yes, I would. Simply, because it should be possible to ask the admins to
> create a 'mozilla.apps.firebug' group. That way one can safley assume,

http://groups.google.com/group/firebug

> that the messages one wants to browse belong to the software s/he is
> using. We get overdrawn by information these days, it would be nice to
> have some pre-filtering by keeping newsgroups at a low signal-to-noise
> ratio.

The signal to noise ratio on this group is high: mostly my posts and spam.

> 
> Imagine topics like these:
> 
> - Can't get things to work!
> - Debugging stops halfway in my code and hangs.
> - Please help a newbie
> - etc.

My proposal is to discuss 'jsd' and internal aspects of firebug. Of 
course others may choose to bring up the topics you suggest.

> 
> So our good reader opens these, reads into it, just to realize, that it
> was about Venkman and not about Firebug (or vice versa). As it is,
> Venkman still seems to be the semi-official js-debugger for Mozilla
> code, so this group should stay for Venkman.

Three people from Mozilla work on Firebug.

> 
> If any of the admins in responsibility are reading this, may I kindly
> ask you to think about a 'mozilla.apps.firebug' group, since I would
> like that one, too. I would appreciate that.

The group here is mozilla.dev.apps.js-debugger, not .venkman.