On 10/11/2009 09:45 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > So.... never ship beta software? That nixes a lot of Fedora packages. Whether to include a beta or not should be decided on a case by case basis. It is a good idea to avoid those but if there are substantial benefits, it is fine. The focal point of the discussion isn't what it originally include but how the software changes in updates. Do you use thunderbird as your main mail client? If so, did you find the changes in the update not disruptive for you? > Heavily patch all TB 3.0 to act like TB 2.0? That seems silly, don't you > think? > > This is *not* the right forum. There is a right forum[1]. > > [1] > http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html#dev-apps-thunderbird We aren't talking about upstream development however. It is the responsibility of the thunderbird package maintainers in Fedora to avoid updates that prevents the mail client from being usable for a substantial amount of time and changes the UI in a unexplained way. The modifications required to avoid those would have been rather simple. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
