time for another developer interview
It's been a while since my last developer interview (Mike Shaver, in May.) These developer intervies work like this. First, you all tell me who you want to hear from. Then I beg that developer to agree ;-) Then I solicit questions from you all and pass those on to the developer. Eventually, I post the results here.
OK. So who do you all want to heare from?
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
It would be nice to have an interview with a dev on the Sunbird team. I see a great potential from Sunbird in the future so yeah, a Sunbird developer!
Posted by: Matt | September 25, 2005 6:34 PM
Darin Fisher
Posted by: vfwlkr | September 25, 2005 7:05 PM
How about Blake Ross? :P
or Brendan Eich?
or Ben Goodger?
Posted by: Frank | September 25, 2005 7:35 PM
Boris Zbarsky or Brendan Eich. :-)
Posted by: Rishi | September 25, 2005 7:42 PM
Anyone from the SVG team. ;-)
Posted by: minghong | September 25, 2005 7:43 PM
I would have to say Ben Goodger or Darin Fisher
Posted by: Jed | September 25, 2005 8:12 PM
David Baron, ask him how his Reflow branch is going :)
I am particularly interested in knowing what new CSS stuff is going to be implemented in 1.5, I saw that some new pseudo-classes where added recently. Text-shadow would be great for 1.5 since it would be a very visible improvement to web pages (and therefore something that end-users can see).
Posted by: pascal | September 25, 2005 8:12 PM
Boris.
Posted by: Jason Barnabe | September 25, 2005 8:16 PM
I'd like have an interview with Vladimir Vukićević. I'm interested to hear more about how he sees the future of bookmarks.
Posted by: Jacob667 | September 25, 2005 8:18 PM
@pascal: text-shadow is coming for 2.0.
Posted by: Rishi | September 25, 2005 8:21 PM
Someone from Sunbird team...please...:)
Posted by: Lu-Tze | September 25, 2005 9:25 PM
Josh Aas :)
Posted by: dex_sf | September 25, 2005 10:00 PM
Whomever is in charge of addons.mozilla.org and its redevelopment.
Posted by: Cameron | September 25, 2005 10:17 PM
Boris Zbarsky
Posted by: Mihai | September 25, 2005 11:18 PM
Lead dev of the Sunbird team!
Posted by: Marcel | September 25, 2005 11:27 PM
Boris (although someone else from "layout" would be fine, too, if any of them can spare the time! Seems like they all fix bugs 36 hours a day....)
Posted by: Smokey Ardisson | September 26, 2005 12:11 AM
Boris He rocks !
Posted by: Ludovic | September 26, 2005 12:35 AM
David Baron
Posted by: FP | September 26, 2005 12:51 AM
BZ please.
Posted by: Robin | September 26, 2005 1:31 AM
David Baron (reflow), Boris Zbarsky (layout and everything), Benjamin Smedbergs (xulrunner) or Vladimir Vukićević (Thebes). Any of those would be fantastic :) Actually, an interview with anyone who works at MoCo would be great.
Posted by: djc | September 26, 2005 3:03 AM
I would love to hear from Scott MacGregor or David Bienvenu. We don't hear that much from either of those guys.
Posted by: hansen | September 26, 2005 3:08 AM
Definately someone from the Sunbird team. :) I'm waiting for the day I can finally replace Outlook. I would have switched to Evolution by now, but AFAIK it's not available for Windows.
Posted by: Jerome Dahdah | September 26, 2005 3:14 AM
Brendan Eich on the standardisation work and future directions of ECMAScript.
It would also be interesting with someone working on security.
Posted by: Hallvord R. M. Steen | September 26, 2005 5:14 AM
+1 BZ
Posted by: Gary van der Merwe | September 26, 2005 5:45 AM
I join my voice to those who want to hear from somebody from the sunbird team. Otherwise, I'd also be interested in the future of bookmarks or the future of search. I've heard there will be some developpment in these areas.
Posted by: ricky @ mycroft | September 26, 2005 5:54 AM
I would like to hear someone from the Sunbird team
Posted by: mat | September 26, 2005 6:49 AM
It is spelled hear not heare
Posted by: jon | September 26, 2005 7:33 AM
Interview jminta or mvl from Sunbird!
Posted by: Robin | September 26, 2005 7:35 AM
bz
Posted by: i5mast | September 26, 2005 7:45 AM
David Baron. :)
Posted by: Miguel | September 26, 2005 7:49 AM
Agreed, I think this should be interesting.
Someone in charge of addons.mozilla.org or the main extensions area of firefox/thunderbird.
> Whomever is in charge of addons.mozilla.org and its redevelopment.
> Posted by: Cameron on September 25, 2005 10:17 PM
Posted by: MTO | September 26, 2005 9:13 AM
I'd be interested in any of the "unsung heroes" who work on Gecko. BZ, David Baron, Johnny Stenbeck, Christien Biesinger, etc. The people I see doing tons of work in Bugzilla but do not get recognition because most of their efforts are transparent to the average user.
Posted by: Jon Henry | September 26, 2005 9:19 AM
bz and dbaron
Or biesi, neil, timeless, ... any other of the backend developers you don't hear from/about very often.
Posted by: Sander | September 26, 2005 11:04 AM
bz bz bz
Posted by: Barend | September 26, 2005 11:43 AM
Boris would be really interesting. The one who never sleeps ;)
Posted by: Abdulkadir Topal | September 26, 2005 12:37 PM
Boris Zbarsky.
Posted by: Adam Guthrie | September 26, 2005 2:35 PM
Since there are so many fundamental changes to Gecko going on in the 1.9a timeframe, I'd like to hear from a Gecko developer, preferrably BZ. He's very knowledgeable and frank, but unfortunately we don't get to hear from him often. I'd rather not spend this interview on a Sunbird developer, as the last developer interview was on Lightning.
Posted by: James Napolitano | September 26, 2005 5:44 PM
Boris Zbarsky.
Posted by: Joshua Welderson | September 26, 2005 5:48 PM
couple of suggestions:
MVL obviously lead of sunbird doesnt get/use any facetime, no blog nothing, would love to hear something from him.
Second suggestion:
Triston the MozEuro guy and now on the board. Would love to hear from him regarding the otherside of the pond dealings/state of the board.
The head honcho herself
The Chief Lizard wrangler, fell silent months ago after announcement of MoCo I would love to hear whats going on with her.
Posted by: poningru | September 26, 2005 7:13 PM
Another vote for Boris Zbarsky or someone else who is working on Gecko
Posted by: Shadow3333 | September 27, 2005 2:20 AM
BZ or DBaron
Posted by: Vlad Dascalu | September 27, 2005 2:48 AM
I'd like to throw in Mike Schroepfer, as he has a prominent role while being a newcomer to the Mozilla community.
Posted by: Axel Hecht | September 27, 2005 5:02 AM
Another vote for BZ
Posted by: Raj | September 27, 2005 5:33 AM
Boris Zbarsky!
Posted by: Fredrik | September 28, 2005 3:31 AM
dbaron or bzbarsky!
Posted by: Jonas Jørgensen | September 28, 2005 8:43 AM
bz: and the thing I want to know is how many hours does he sleep, since it appears he never does.
Posted by: Robert Accettura | September 30, 2005 8:35 PM
Christopher Aillon.
Posted by: max | October 3, 2005 1:16 PM