I knew this was about Firefox without looking at the url.
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An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
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Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#12We don't close bugs just because they are old.
Priority on fixing bugs is some combination of their severity, the number of users affected, and the difficulty/disruption involved in fixing it. The age is not relevant.
Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#13That's downright rapid by Mozilla standards.
Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#14We don't close bugs just because they are old. Priority on fixing bugs is some combination of their severity, the number of users affected, and the difficulty/disruption involved in fixing it. The age is not relevant.
In this case they closed the bug because a competing browser launched with the "bug fix" as one of its most touted features, and Mozilla spent several years rearchitecting Firefox in order to support the requested feature. This is a triumph.
Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#15Some active bugs on my github repo are 9 years old. Pretty common with long lived OS projects.
Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#16We don't close bugs just because they are old. Priority on fixing bugs is some combination of their severity, the number of users affected, and the difficulty/disruption involved in fixing it. The age is not relevant.
In this case they closed the bug because a competing browser launched with the "bug fix" as one of its most touted features, and Mozilla spent several years rearchitecting Firefox in order to support the requested feature. This is a triumph.
That's not how I would describe it and not how it was described at that time. It was deemed necessary to discontinue legacy extensions to improve the browser.
Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#17I've had years-old patches land, if it's any consolation.
Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#18Closed because it became irrelevant in Nov 2017. I guess that's resolved.
Closed today because it "became irrelevant in Nov 2017"?
Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#19Yeah and it was closed by deleting the relevant functionality.
Re: An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed
#20Unrelated, but seeing Bugzilla reminded me, I was recently delighted to learn that there's been (slow but) steady progress on a 9-year-old ticket.
Implement the WebMIDI API - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897