Re: Cowboys herding cats

On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:33:11 GMT, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing
wrote:

(1) I know, I ran it. My point was on OpenVMS VAX vs OpenVMS Alpha. I think
there was a Netscape for VAX but - and I might remeber wrong - we never got
to a Mozilla for VAX - that was just Alpha and Itanium.

(2) Howcum WONTFIX?

These are all (like Solaris, OS/2, IRIX, BeOS, AIX) user contributed
builds and don't come from the build machines hosted by Mozilla. It is
up to volunteers to keep their platform ports alive. The Solaris and
OS/2 teams are extremely proactive. Within days (or even hours) of some
breakage, there are patches submitted to bugzilla.mozilla.org to get
those builds working again. The VMS bugs have been open for years and
the last time I saw a volunteer step up to fix those bugs was, um,
never? I've been going through our "ancient bugs" list and (for
platforms not on our tier 1 or tier 2 list) closing bugs that have had
no activity for five years.

Phil

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