(In reply to Tristan Miller from comment #169) > As a programmer yourself, it can't be such a big deal for you to submit a > patch that does exactly this. This would certainly be a more collegial and > productive course of action than publically berating others for what you > consider to be "very poor programming".
They simply laid out their view on the current state (well, continuous for years) of this matter, and were honest... There wasn't attacking of people or calling names. I'm sorry you were offended by that. You most likely concur with the sentiment that this part of the application and it remaining as it is for long are both not good... I don't think it's a reasonable expectation that people will just hide it or lie about it while discussing it. A patch submission doesn't preclude accompanying discussion anyway, but I think it's also disingenuous to call it more productive... unfortunately we know that even if patches were offered even years ago, as previously discussed here, it doesn't mean that they would have been used or made a difference in the issue. In the first place this issue isn't one where implementation details are complex, unknown or time consuming to write. It is pretty clear that it is one of those where there just hasn't been a decision by Mozilla to fix it, or to apply the band-aid solution, and that decision is the only thing that is missing (indeed I expect it would take a programmer with experience with contributing to the project a couple of minutes to handle the implementation). Yeah, that's a kind of thing that unfortunately doesn't exactly invite people to contribute to the project in general. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065126 Title: "Always do this from now on" does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1065126/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
