thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

[Tim Lauridsen]

On 10/11/2009 11:16 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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
>
>
There is a difference between stable and static, if we have a beta of 
thunderbird in F11, then it expected to change between beta releases.
The new search features are very cool, we should be happy someone uses 
the time to give us all this cool new features.

Tim