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
This has been my work around since the addons I really depend on don't
work on TB3. I installed TB2 from the tarball and turned on automatic
updates. I also added an exclude to /etc/yum.conf for "thunderbird".
John