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  28 <h1>Code Porting Work</h1>
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  32   <li>Porting app-specific code for <span class="hilite">core/toolkit
  33     changes</span> (or even xpfe->toolkit in our case)</li>
  34   <li>Porting <span class="hilite">features from other apps</span> to own app
  35     (e.g. Firefox->SeaMonkey)</li>
  36   <li>Code reviews - different <span class="hilite">coding style</span></li>
  37   <li>Sometimes need (slight) core/toolkit changes to get app work done</li>
  38   <li>Hard to get r+ as toolkit reviewers are usually swamped and non-FF things are <span class="hilite">low priority</span></li>
  39   <li>Slow reviews make forking more fun than improving core/toolkit</li>
  40   <li>Too few implementations of <span class="hilite">nsIClonableDeveloper</span> (and no good documentation)</li>
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