thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Sun Oct 11 09:16:22 UTC 2009


On 10/11/2009 04:54 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> It was ok to ship a "beta" release of thunderbird but updates shouldn't
> cause such issues. If the fixes were necessary to push as updates then
> it would have prudent to disable "smart folders" and "indexing" by
> default and leave it enabled in Fedora 12.

Precisely.  F11 is supposed to be a stable release.  The sudden 
appearance of both smart folders and indexing was unexpected, disruptive 
and IMO did not achieve the desired quality level for a Fedora stable 
release upgrade.

	Jeff





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