On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Steve Dickson wrote: > BEWARE! > > [Bug 559312] thunderbird corrupts mail indices (Old mail marked as new) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559312 > > For the last 24hrs all my mail state (read/unread, all tags) have > been completely destroyed. DO NOT upgrade to version 3.0.1!!! > > Most of us really take pride in making sure what we push out to > the community has been tested and will not be disruptive > or destructive. Then there a small group of people that simply > don't give a damn what they push out or the havoc they cause. > This makes the *entire* community look like crap... > > My goal here is twofold. One alert everyone that your mail will > be destroyed if you upgrade to 3.0.1 and to shine light on > shoddy work in hopes they will take pride in one, fixing the > problem ASAP and two change their process so things like > stop happen... > > IMHO... events like this is the reason why Linux (Fedora explicitly) > is having such a hard time being accepted the mainstream.... > This one's tricky, what checks could have been in place to prevent this? Additional testing may not have worked as some people say they aren't seeing the issue. The real tricky part is 3.0.1 is the release upstream is recommending to users as well: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ -Mike -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
