Robert, I don't really know what to say. I guess I'll fall back on saying, "Thank you," and pointing out that I'm hardly the only person who's put a lot of volunteer time into Mozilla in the last few years (if nothing else, a certain Robert O'Callahan was writing the new scary viewmanager on a volunteer basis when I was just starting to look at Mozilla code). Well do I remember enabling that preference and being amazed at the translucent iframes!
Posted by bzbarsky at March 7, 2005 1:09 AMI don't think you can be thanked enough for the work you do on Mozilla.
Basically, you're the person who got me hooked on the Mozilla project in the first place.
And you guided me how to help in the bugzilla process (making testcases/finding regression ranges).
So, apart from your coding skills and tirelessness, I think you've also great communication skills.
So thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
(If you feel you haven't been thanked enough, just say it, and I'll write some more ;) You deserve it. )
Posted by: Martijn on March 7, 2005 3:51 AMRoc is just far below the truth. People like dbaron and you carry a large part of Mozilla on your shoulders.
Posted by: Daniel Glazman on March 7, 2005 4:47 AMSimilar for me.
You're the one who got me hooked on the Mozilla project. I would never ever start hacking here without your help.
You're doing most amazing job in the whole project and I'm sure that Mozilla project without your contribution wouldn't ever came into light.
Thank you for your time, devotion, hard work and so much help you're giving to newbies when they're in blind alley (which is often). I believe that you're motivating us to work and follow your example.
Kudos to you
Posted by: gandalf on March 7, 2005 4:54 AMI really appreciate core Gecko-Layout people like bzabsky, dbaron and roc. They keep a low profile but they are the ones who makes whole mozilla - firefox engine keep going. I cant thank you enough for all the work you did.
If I were you, I'd get used to making acceptance speeches. When I saw you'd been hired by the Mozilla Foundation, my first thought was, "Hmm, does that disqualify him from receiving a Volunteer Award?" Because when I first heard about the Volunteer Awards, I thought that they could practically be called the Boris Zbarsky Awards.
So, yeah, you rule. And stuff.
Posted by: Alex Bishop on March 7, 2005 11:00 AMI am very glad that Robert sheds the deserved light on your work and even more that mozilla hired you part time. I am thankfull for all the guidance.
Posted by: Bernd on March 7, 2005 12:10 PMMe seven!
Just because loads of credit should be flowing in the direction of roc and dbaron, doesn't make you any less deserving.
Frankly, from my perspective (just a grunt whose email address is cc'd on a couple hundred bugs) your reserves of patience in explaining things to clueless people in bugzilla are almost superhuman. I'd have had a total sense-of-humour bypass years ago. You'd be an invaluable contributor even if you never laid a finger on the code.
To do that *and* keep up all the coding you do...
Just look on this as long-overdue egoboo.
Posted by: blufive on March 7, 2005 12:17 PM