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 . Shawn Wilsher filed a bug in October 2008 about getting an experimental Places HG repo set up. It is my opinion that we need this ASAP. (I cannot find this bug, will ask sdwilsh about it)
-. Frankly, it is demoralizing working on the Places code. It is like a sick joke and an albatross on Firefox's neck. Places is a perfect example (however much smaller) of what Mike Shaver proposed about Gecko at the All Hands.
+. Frankly, working on places feels like it is going to be death by a thousand patches, and I'm not sure how it will end up, but fixing it seems like more work than starting over. It will never be elegant and easy to extend if we keep on the road we are on, and the longer we keep on this path the harder it will be to pull the plug. The rationale for "marshaling on" with the current code is duly noted (it seems to be based on inertia in my opinion). I understand the concern in being conservative with code changes, but when did Mozilla become conservative? Are we really this afraid of change? What was Tracemonkey then? anything but conservative.
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