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Re:Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item by nneonneo on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:29PM (#30380180)
This person makes a decision supported by reasonable evidence and argumentation, confirmed through discussion with other members of the organization and wider community, and shipped after a thorough review (all happening in the open on a bug tracker!); and you're calling for them to be fired?

I sure hope you don't make any mistakes at your company!

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Re:Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item by xg15 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @07:43PM (#30380876)
> all happening in the open on a bug tracker!

I find it suspicious that there was not a single comment from a user before the change shipped - but immediately after, there were various complaints. That's not the first time I see this pattern in a bug.

This looks more like the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" definition of "open" - where the discussion is technically public, but you heavily rely on the fact that no one knows it exists.

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Re:Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item by zozbot234 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @07:57PM (#30380956)
That's a good point. The removal of such user-critical features should at the very least be announced well in advance via a clear deprecation notice, to allow for the collection of relevant feedback.
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Re:Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item by wolverine876 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:44PM (#30382222)
> user-critical features

They didn't remove JavaScript or the tabs. Very few users will know it's gone - I wouldn't have noticed.

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Re:Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item by ciupicri on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:52AM (#30386431)
If the page becomes unreadable I would say that it's critical.
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Re:Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item by wolverine876 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:43PM (#30382219)
How could Mozilla publicize every change they make? And then discuss them all?
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Re:Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item by dblohm7 on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:20AM (#30382678)
By submitting every new Bugzilla ticket as a new HN post, of course!
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