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Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarksFedora, Mozilla, and trademarksPosted Apr 29, 2010 8:05 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627)In reply to: Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks by pabs Parent article: Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks
Getting changes merged upstream first would slow down development a lot.
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Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks Posted Apr 29, 2010 11:49 UTC (Thu) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]
Fedora has a strong policy of 'upstream first' and, to say the least, it doesn't generally get people complaining that the pace of change is too slow.
Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks Posted Apr 29, 2010 23:48 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]
Fedora is not building a large application on top of those upstream libraries that needs features added to those libraries.
Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks Posted Apr 29, 2010 13:51 UTC (Thu) by ccurtis (guest, #49713) [Link] Perhaps it would help if you posted a message like "our project is hurting and we need a release with this patch NOW NOW NOW" to their bug tracker.
Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks Posted May 2, 2010 3:31 UTC (Sun) by jwalden (guest, #41159) [Link]
Someone please correct me quickly if I'm wrong, but my understanding -- just from hearing people talking about it passing over lunch, or something like that, and this is the haze of a memory, so maybe I didn't hear correctly -- is that libffi isn't sufficiently strongly maintained to permit this.
I would also note (conveniently, one might say, but I believe accurately) that the browser market is a uniquely competitive one, as far as distribution-packaged software goes. What other distro package sees such widespread use, where time-to-market matters as much? (I'm speaking to the benefits of quick iteration through in-tree, lightly-patched third-party code now, not to the backport approval process.) I just skimmed my Applications menu in Fedora, and I can't see anything where new functionality and features have such high demand as for browsers.
Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks Posted May 3, 2010 20:12 UTC (Mon) by atgreen (guest, #33284) [Link]
I'm the upstream libffi author/maintainer.
Dan Witte, from Mozilla, has been terrific about feeding back libffi patches over the past few months. But from what I recall they mostly have to do with building libffi on Windows and OS/2. I don't remember anything that would prevent them from using the system libffi on Linux.
In any case, this sudden batch of contributions from Dan and Mozilla is appreciated.
Anthony Green
Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks Posted May 3, 2010 22:19 UTC (Mon) by jwalden (guest, #41159) [Link]
Ah, yeah, that's what I actually heard -- Windows support being the big thing. As I said, the memory was quite hazy. :-)
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