Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-09-21 00:40 (GMT+0800) PillowSky composed:

> Post on ubuntuforum
> Link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2175314
> In the E-mail is just a summary.

> I find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves.

Here's one reason why:

Ubuntu was born less than 9 years ago. Of the most popular current distros, 
it's among the youngest. The more mature Mozilla developers picked their 
Linux distros before Ubuntu did more than a little maturing, 10-15 years ago, 
so these more experienced developers are mostly RedHat->Fedora (heavily 
Gnome/GTK), SuSE->openSUSE (more evenly KDE as Gnome), 
Mandrake->Mandriva->Mageia (more strongly KDE than Gnome), Debian, Slackware 
and maybe a few other more mature distro users. Most devs don't switch 
distros willy nilly. Those Mozilla devs using *buntu are mostly younger and 
less experienced, and more likely volunteers than subsidized or salaried to 
work on Mozilla.

I use the binaries built by Mozilla.org more than those built and 
"personalized" by the various distros. I get better control over which 
versions are installed, and since I need more than just latest version, I 
have a more consistent experience by sticking to binaries build by only one 
source, regardless what I have booted.
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