In today's episode of "is #Mozilla really a community-oriented organization?":
Apparently there was a project called Starling that functioned as a proof-of-concept for using Servo (instead of CEF) to build an Electron-like runtime. Source: https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.servo/c/U5zhsBLXovM/m/HbRL69zZBAAJ (search for 'Starling').
I had never heard of this before I saw it mentioned in that thread, so I searched for a bit, and landed on this thread: https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/28411, which basically asks "this Starling thing that apparently exists, where can we find it?"
The answer is "There are no such apps at this time". Was there ever a project? Was it ever published? Was it cancelled? Who knows! No trace left, apparently, of something that people have been asking for for years.
How community-oriented is Mozilla really, when a highly-desired project like this apparently exists without people knowing about it, and the work seemingly never seems the light of day, and just gets axed internally without any opportunity for the community to continue working on it and refining it?
And to emphasize, this is just one of many, many, *many* things about Mozilla that are shaped like this. If this were a single incident, it wouldn't be a big deal. But it's like this almost constantly.
