Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello Prefix,

On 20.09.2013 17:38, Prefix wrote:
> What is more important is that, they know a lot more about their code than us. If a large project like Firefox contain bugs in their code and can't work well in Ubuntu, we have to waste a lot of time to learn the code tree, learn the algorithm in the program and finally find where the bug is, and fix it. But the Mozilla developers are familiar with the code and is possible to fix it within five minutes!This will happen if only Mozilla maintenance Firefox packages themselves, because they will develop on Ubuntu, build on Ubuntu, test on Ubuntu. Bugs will become less and less, and less time will be wasted on things just like reinventing the wheel!

Sure. Upstream authors would be great to have very close to Ubuntu and
actively involved in Ubuntu itself.

Did you ask anyone at Mozilla if they were interested in maintaining
packages in Ubuntu and take care of all the integration with Ubuntu?

I might be wrong, but I get the impression that you seem to assume that
integration in Ubuntu is an easy thing to do. While it'd be great if
that was the case, you might just want to have a look at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/firefox/+changelog to get an
idea of what kind of changes were necessary to make Firefox work well in
Saucy. In the interesting cases in our archive, you bring in a new
version of a piece of software and it will have a big impact on many
other packages. Balancing this out and putting work into making
everything work nicely often is quite an achievement.

If you have any proposals how Upstream authors could more easily get
involved in Ubuntu, please bring them up here on the mailing list.

Have a great day,
 Daniel

-- 
Get involved in Ubuntu development! developer.ubuntu.com/packaging
Follow @ubuntudev on identi.ca/twitter.com/facebook.com/G+