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by mbrubeck
5457 days ago
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It'll also ship this week to around 100,000 users who are already on the Aurora channel, and in just six weeks to literally millions of users on the beta channel. Firefox is an open source project. Part of our mission is to enable participation by the community, and that requires doing our work in the open and talking about it in public. |
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I completely respect that, and I have nothing against your philosophy whatsoever.
However, I assume that Mozilla provides those who prefer to stay up to date using the dev builds with information about significant releases via other channels. Moreover, while Firefox obviously has impressive numbers of people who do stay at the bleeding edge, is that not still only a small proportion of the total user base?
If HN winds up being that channel for every major OSS project that a few HN readers use, it will look like Slashdot a few years ago -- that is, the Slashdot that many people abandoned for a while. All I'm asking is that we leave specialised discussions about in-development features to more appropriate forums, and keep HN to mainstream announcements of wider interest (such as when an important feature actually makes it into a production build of a major product) if we're going to have feature announcements at all.
Given how often my original post has been both up- and down-voted, this seems to be a fairly polarising view, however.