“This is bugging me, and its been bugging me for a while. In
nearly three years, we haven’t built up a community of hackers
around Firefox, for a myriad of reasons, and now I think we’re in
trouble. Of the six people who can actually review in Firefox, four
are AWOL, and one doesn’t do a lot of reviews. And I’m on the verge
of just walking away indefinitely, since it feels like I’m the only
person who cares enough to make it an issue. Things I’ve raised in
relatively private contexts have gone unanswered, and I’m growing
increasingly cynical about our ability to ship 1.1 early enough to
make 1.5 remotely viable this year. At the glacial pace of
development we’re currently running at, I don’t see how the
ambitious plans for 2.0 are going to be at all viable before late
2006. Maybe I’m wrong, but no one’s bothered to take five minutes
and tell me that…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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