I'm also interested in the postmortem to explain the processes that failed to allow the certificate to expire, but let's not overdramatize the situation by nitpicking about filling in form fields on bugzilla. The fact that the tree was closed is equivalent to DEFCON-1, which is all the priority anyone needs to understand the severity of this bug.
> Random user: What the fuck is a tree and why is the priority of this not higher yet?
Not to be too glib, but any random user who is technically literate enough to know where to seek out Firefox's issue tracker and how to find the issue in question, and who has such a thorough understanding of issue trackers that they understand that such a thing as a priority field exists, is also going to be savvy enough to read the very first comment, and will be well aware of what it means, and will, one hopes, be rational enough to understand that the flurry of activity indicated by the issue in question is more important than a passing field in the bugzilla database.
If anyone expects Mozilla to take power users seriously, then we need to focus our criticism on the things that aren't just imagined trivialites. It makes me frustrated that the people who irrationally fly off the handle at the slightest perceived provocation are also the ones who implicitly encourage Mozilla to write off power users as more trouble than we're worth (and after ten years of watching these incessant whining non-comments on HN, I don't blame them anymore).
