isn’t shy about giving his
two cents with regards to the source of some of
mozilla’s
woes:
“With all of this precious talent spread so thin, teams
end up getting filled out with mediocre engineers and talentless
hacks, and every application is doomed before you even write the
first line of code. With so many modules and projects, each of
which require strong leadership and direction, it’s inevitable that
many of those modules end up helmed by people who had no business
being in charge of that area of code in the first place.This problem also applies in the open source community, where the
level of contributors varies widely. Mozilla has non-Netscape
contributors that have been given checkin access to the tree that
have no business being let anywhere near a computer. The argument
for access was always, “But this idiot from Netscape is allowed to
checkin, and I can’t?” and so the lowered bar at Netscape resulted
in a lowered bar for the rest of the world.The only way Mozilla is going to become a strong product IMO is if
many fewer people are allowed to check in.”