Firefox’s Rapid Release Schedule Draws More Blame

Mozilla's recent rapid release schedule for its Firefox browser has come low-level sizable fire in recent weeks, and over the weekend even more than fuel was added to the conflagration.

The criticism this time came from John Tyler Downer, a past unpaid with the project World Health Organization latterly left after three eld in frustration with what helium sees American Samoa a "broken" triage process for finding and fixing bugs.

"Triage as we know it today is NOT ready to handle the Speedy Liberate process," Downer wrote in a blog post last Sat.

Nether the oldish model, through with which a new major translation was released once a year, "triage had a bit more time to follow through a massive pile of bugs, to find regressions and issues, and there was a jolly good chance that most bugs would get caught, just because we had time along our side, and we could afford to miss a bug for 6 weeks, because we would most likely go around to it," he explained.

With the new, faster process, however, "triage was caught off his guard," Downer declared. "We presently have 2598 [unconfirmed] bugs in Firefox that haven't been touched in 150 years. That is almost 2600 bugs that have not been touched since Firefox 4 was discharged. And how many more bugs have been touched, merely non really triaged or worked on? Day-to-day this identification number grows."

'Awesome If Done Properly'

Downer did make a point of noting that he was not criticizing the rapid release process itself.

"I jazz the idea of rapid unblock," he wrote. "Rapid Release is going to be awesome if through with properly. I take always been indeed frustrated by the continual late releases that take for back awesome new features from the entanglement."

Sedative also added in a Monday post that he does not think the situation is forlorn. "I take over been in talks over the past few days, and I catch a good possibleness that Mozilla means business in improving triage," he added.

Tranquillize, when he left, it was "because of a imprecise want of interest in doing anything substantial to improve the Triage action," he same at the time.

Ongoing Argument

Mozilla has also drawn criticism in recent months for an seeming neglect for business users of Firefox, as well as for discussing the possibility of changing the fashio version numbers are treated.

Mitchell Baker, chair of the nonprofit Mozilla Groundwork, has even added her voice to the mix to defend the new rapid loss schedule.

I'm still a big fan of Firefox and Mozilla, but it's becoming increasingly clear that problems like these are devising things more difficult for the campaign than they involve to be. I hope they don't turn into a lasting distraction.