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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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848 points thefilmore | 2 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.55s | source
1. kristel100 ◴[13 May 25 08:20 UTC] No.43970707[source]▶
Honestly surprised it took this long. For a project that depends so much on community contribution, being on GitHub just lowers the barrier for new devs. Curious to see if this revives contribution velocity.
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2. berkes ◴[13 May 25 08:30 UTC] No.43970774[source]▶
In the very least, it will open up FTEs that can now work on what makes Mozilla projects unique, rather than on building and maintaining generic fundamentals.

It's a pet-peeve and personal frustration of mine. "Do one thing and do that well" is also often forgotten in this part of Open Source projects. You are building a free alternative to slack? spend every hour on building the free alternative to slack, not on selfhosting your Gitlab, operating your CI-CD worker-clusters or debugging your wiki-servers.