Gervase Markham wrote:
Why do you persist in seeing this as an either/or, black-and-white
thing?
Gerv, I am not excited about your working in closed group, but I still
hope you make a good job. I think that you and Heikki should have said
earlier, that at the current time you work with specific associates in a
closed group; again: this is legitimate, imho, even if I prefer
otherwise. But saying so openly may have saved time wasted on trying to
convince Mozilla security group to look at other proposals (e.g.
TrustBar), and may have even impacted decisions. For example, I've put
more resources on FF improvements of TrustBar than on completing the IE
version. Maybe I would have reveresed this if I was aware of you process
earlier. After all, MS are also interested and watching our work, so if
you work together, maybe an IE version would help more...
Just because we are improving the certificate UI doesn't mean
that all your work is suddenly invalid or unwanted. I'm very interested
in what you are doing. I'm not yet convinced any of the suggested
outside contributions are a good fit for Firefox. That doesn't mean that
won't change in the future.
Ok, so let us all continue working...
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Best regards,
Amir Herzberg
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Bar Ilan University
http://AmirHerzberg.com
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