thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Tue Oct 13 06:43:45 UTC 2009


On 10/13/2009 01:58 AM, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 10/11/2009 09:46 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 10/11/2009 10:03 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>
>>> I do use TB (read my email headers). I fully understood that TB 3.0 was
>>> in beta and could drastically change at any moment. I keep track of
>>> their development as well so I was prepared for the changes that have
>>> happened. If you expect beta software to act like stable software then
>>> you need to update your dictionary.
>>
>> Oh please. Expecting all Fedora thunderbird users to keep track of
>> upstream development of software included in Fedora is totally
>> ridiculous. The package maintainer made the judgement to include a beta
>> release of thunderbird. If major UI or other behaviour changes were
>> expected to follow in later revisions, it would have been wise to not
>> include the beta release in the first place. Otherwise, it would have
>> been easy enough to disable those couple of features we are talking
>> about in the update and avoid the hassle for users.
>
> The changes were not expected. Actually, the fact that TB3 is still in
> beta was not expected, since it was supposed to be released as a final
> within a week of FF35. Clearly, things haven't been going as planned for
> upstream and that's had an effect on Fedora, too. While the changes are
> unfortunate, they have gone through testing, and I'll note that


er, huh?  What does that mean?

If testing had been done, then why were these two _blindingly obvious_ 
behavior changes pushed to F11?

Where did the process break down, then?

Did the package maintainer think that UI and indexing changes in the 
middle of a stable Fedora release are acceptable, general practice?

The indexing change has created a new wrinkle, too:  I separate my work 
and non-work email for LEGAL reasons.  Now the index has smushed those 
two together.  Lovely, fscking lovely...

	Jeff






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