[Bug 211807] Review Request: firefox2 - Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Web browser for FC6

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Summary: Review Request: firefox2 - Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Web browser for FC6


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211807





------- Additional Comments From caillon at redhat.com  2007-01-03 09:35 EST -------
So you have the packager saying one thing and everyone in the Fedora "community"
saying another thing instead of the "community" rallying behind a packager's
decision on an issue.  So, now people start looking for ways to get around the
packager's decision.  "Maybe we can have an extras package, or put something
into updates-testing, etc." because nobody in the "community" thinks the
packager's decision is good enough.

Why on earth would anyone want to be a packager in this sort of "community"? 
Why would I want to continue contributing, after 3 years of Fedora package
maintainer and 6 years of upstream mozilla.org work including work on the
release team, want to continue contributing to a "community" project where I
apparently haven't garnered enough respect to gain "community" backing on a
technical, practical, and compatability decision, even if it is a little
unpopular?  The "we understand your points, but we want it anyway" mentality is
getting a little old.

Can't we simply tell people Fedora 6 has 1.5, Fedora 7 will have Firefox 2?  If
the success of FC6 is so dependent on a single package being upgraded, then
something is completely off.  Yes, I am aware that people want it.  That doesn't
mean we should bend over backwards to do it.  If that were the case, we'd have
shipped all sorts of media codecs by now.  But we do what's right, not
necessarily what's popular.  So, how about a little support?


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