To be clear, i wasn't badmouthing FF (all of fiddle's develoment so far, aside from occasional individual tests) has been in FF on Linux. That one particular FF feature kinda gets my goat, though, when i'm writing web apps ;).
> My understanding is that the SQLite team typically isn't very open to outside contribution.
It's not the contribution, per se, but actual code patches are tricky for the sqlite project because of licensing. sqlite is released into the public domain by its creators, but not all legal jurisdictions recognize public domain as a real thing. Thus Richard is extra-extra-careful to ensure that all of the code which goes in to the repository is added by someone who's signed a waiver validating that any code they added is not going to be a licensing issue, and only people Richard has come to know and trust are offered the option of signing that waiver. Often, when patches are posted by users, they can be used as a basis for equivalent patches but cannot be used as-is because of the potential for licensing fallout.
To be clear, i wasn't badmouthing FF (all of fiddle's develoment so far, aside from occasional individual tests) has been in FF on Linux. That one particular FF feature kinda gets my goat, though, when i'm writing web apps ;).
> My understanding is that the SQLite team typically isn't very open to outside contribution.
It's not the contribution, per se, but actual code patches are tricky for the sqlite project because of licensing. sqlite is released into the public domain by its creators, but not all legal jurisdictions recognize public domain as a real thing. Thus Richard is extra-extra-careful to ensure that all of the code which goes in to the repository is added by someone who's signed a waiver validating that any code they added is not going to be a licensing issue, and only people Richard has come to know and trust are offered the option of signing that waiver. Often, when patches are posted by users, they can be used as a basis for equivalent patches but cannot be used as-is because of the potential for licensing fallout.