On 01/28/2010 09:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > 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? I don't know... since I'm not a developer of this technology just a user... But there has to be some way they can to stop major problems like this happening... Lets not forget the 3.0 beta release that was pushed in early F-12 that sucked up 100% of the cpu due to some new type of indexing... So there is a pattern here... steved. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
