Mozilla Bug 163993 - The Mozilla Hall of Shame

Bug 163993

Mozilla's bugzilla has a wealth of information. Almost anyone who's reported a bug can tell you that even very regularly reported problems, very broken bugs and very popular features are met in mozilla with silence. Jerry Baker has recently opened an RFE #117 on bugzilla.mozilla to highlight the continued disregard in a format with which one can easily see the important bugs currently being ignored:

Anyone who uses Bugzilla quickly becomes aware that bugs are not fixed according to their importance with users. At least we agree on that. I know it is, and has been, the position of mozilla.org to keep any advocacy that conflicts with their goals out of public view as much as possible. It looks bad to have a huge list of bugs, that many users are interested in seeing fixed, being ignored for years. It looks even worse when you can click on any bug in that list and read the blatant, egotistical attitude frequently taken by drivers and others when refusing to fix bugs because of petty personal vendettas and for other lame excuses.

As far as spam, there are email preferences if you do not want to receive bug spam.

However, I am sympathetic to the spam complaint. It would be just as effective to list all of these bugs in a comment to this bug. That way you can still see the list and see which are fixed, and which are not.

While I disagree with his method, I really can't find fault with his opinions, and I can easily see how he'd become so disillusioned.

Of course, he will be ignored.