Re: Mass closing of OS/2 bugs

Lars Erdmann wrote:
> Am 01.07.16 um 23.39 schrieb Steve Wendt:
>> On 7/1/2016 1:13 PM, Lars Erdmann wrote:
>>
>>> So what ?
>>
>> It's just reinforcing the fact that Mozilla for OS/2 is considered dead.
>>   It's nice that we have the bitwise fork, but it's unfortunate that it
>> happened.  It's part of the same mentality that pushed Firefox so
>> heavily, followed by driving down the market share of it with a myriad
>> of "we know best" decisions.  The spirit of community support is not
>> what it used to be...
>>
>
> Particularly in that case, I consider the bitwise fork to be a great
> advantage rather than a drawback. It gives the OS/2 community much
> better control of getting the OS/2 specific bugs fixed.

On the other hand, there is no review process, which I've often watched 
improve even good programmers code. It does slow things down.

>
> The one problem is that Firefox now has an absurdingly short update
> cycle. Just as so many other products because of the ability to update
> over the internet ...

This is the killer, it would probably be a full time job keeping our 
code current and now the Mozilla developers have been banned from even 
considering TB and SM, little well 3rd tier platforms.
Dave