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It seems more than a bit presumptuous to tell open source maintainers what they “need to” do. If they announced tomorrow they’d decided to focus all their effo
by akerl_ 6y ago
It seems more than a bit presumptuous to tell open source maintainers what they “need to” do.
If they announced tomorrow they’d decided to focus all their efforts on using Rust to calculate digits of pi, that’s their perogative.
As a prolific creator with a strong sense of vision for your projects, I’d have expected this to be obvious.
- ddevault 6y agoThey're free to spend their time on whatever they want, and I wouldn't presume to tell them what to do. What I am doing here is not that. I am explaining a fact. If you want to go to the moon, you need a rocket. Building a zero-gee deep fryer to serve hotdogs on the way is not going to get the job done.
- fabrice_d 6y agoNow they are free to spend their (free) time on what they want. When most of the core contributors where payed by Mozilla, they could not chose to eg. "focus on web compat", hence they went on something you consider useless, but that kept the project alive. That allowed a few other things to be done like the re-write of the parallel layout. Of course we can't know for sure what would have happened if they refused to work on VR, but my gut feeling is that this would not have helped the project.