Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by jacquesm on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:11PM
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Interesting that 'factor of three' puts it within the range of the number of employees Mozilla currently has. That means that the browser is already in danger if they do other stuff besides. Hm. That's more urgent than I thought it would be.
Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by jpetso on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:54PM
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To clarify, I wrote "factor OR three", by which I meant to emphasize my complete lack of certainty regarding the "best possible" performance you asked about. I'll only commit to my earlier statement about the definite irrelevance below 100 people.
For doing the "best job possible", you can probably blow up team size by a lot, there are numerous tasks that would benefit from more attention and I'm sure Mozilla are already making hard trade-offs at their current staffing levels (which obviously include a lot of people outside of Firefox engineering).