On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Christopher Aillon wrote: > > > On 10/14/2009 07:56 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > Feodra 11 should not have shipped with a beta but the previous stable > > > version. > > > > That's really easy for you to say, considering you don't use Thunderbird, and > > you have no information about the decision making process. > > > > The information I used to make the decision was: > > > > * The upstream release date was going to be within a week of > > F11's release date, from a normally reliable source > > * 3.0 had many desirable improvements to performance > > * 2.0 would be EOL'd by upstream soon > > * Thunderbird users tend to be in the "want upgrade now" camp > > * Changing from 2.0 -> 3.0 after F11 was released is not something I > > wanted to do > > * Tb3 beta would affect a smaller portion of Fedora users anyway since > > Thunderbird is _not_ the default mail client. > > * Given initial testing by my team, and tracking upstream feedback, it > > worked well enough and there were no major regressions over 2.0. > > > > > > Given the situation and circumstances, with the information I had available, I > > would make the same decision again. > > > > I would have made the same decision as you, that doesn't mean it wasn't a > mistake. We have no policies or procedures in place to guide you, me or > anyone else otherwise. As such, we run into these issues, cause pain for > the users, etc, etc. > Just an additional note to this, Mozilla themselves are still directing people to download Thunderbird 2. http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ -Mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
