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Re:You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more by slrz on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:19PM (#16661072)
Bugs are also marked private without any security angle involved whatsoever. Often, these are related to initiatives done in cooperation with so-called "partners".

For an open source project, Mozilla appears to constantly settle on pretty shitty partners if it is true (as is alleged) that it's these partners that insist on secret communication shielded from any community interaction.

Such shady deals in smoke-filled backrooms are one of the small number of things that are hard to impossible to pull off in a community-driven project without constantly pissing off contributors.

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Re:You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more by Yoric on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:43AM (#16689583)
Er... pretty much everybody in pretty much all industries prefer keeping their internal communications and their communications with their clients/providers private. Mozilla is one of the only industry actors who manages to keep most of its communications public.
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