xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

[Peter Lemenkov]

2010/10/4 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com>:

> Please look at this list:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&component=firefox&product=Fedora&classification=Fedora
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&component=thunderbird&product=Fedora&classification=Fedora
>
> There are 1108 open bugs against Firefox and 404 bugs against
> Thunderbird and new bugs are coming. And there are only three mozilla
> maintainers at Red Hat.

In fact the backlog for Mozilla-related packages is even bigger,
because (due to the fact that MoFo products are unmaintainable at all)
many of them were closed automatically with new Fedora releases.

Anyway, the situation is worser then people believe, because no matter
how many maintainers MoFo apps have in Fedora - they just can't fix
bugs and close tickets, even ones with clean and sane patches
attached.

Speaking of me - I opened two tickets regarding PowerPC support with
small patches attached - so far one was closed automatically with next
Fedora release, and another will be closed in a next few months. That
was highly disappointing for me, because I wasn't aware about the
current situation with licensing deal between RH and MoFo, which is
preventing Fedora packagers (us, I mean) from fixing issues.

So no excuse here, please - just allow us fixing bugs. So far I see
the only way to fix this sorrow situation (that was proposed several
times before) - we MUST replace proprietary MoFo products with open
alternatives.
-- 
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.