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Who is Fedora for?

Posted Mar 11, 2010 21:27 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Who is Fedora for? by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Who is Fedora for?

The differences between the Thunderbird beta and the release were large, confusing people who
were used to the UI and enabling indexing features that many people found excessively resource
hungry. While shipping a beta at GA and pushing the full version as an update may be reasonable
under various circumstances, it's unreasonable for that update to break people's workflow and the
Thunderbird 3 update should have had its defaults modified to match.

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Who is Fedora for?

Posted Mar 11, 2010 21:47 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Yes and I have written extensively about that including

http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/stop-screwing-arou...
http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/in-the-name-of-evo...
http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/thunderbird-proble...

My point was simply that such behavior can happen in even a minor update
and we should be tackling that directly in the update policy instead of
distracting ourselves with discussions about pre-releases. Whether
something is called by upstream as alpha or beta is less important than
what changes the updates bring along. The problem in thunderbird could
have been solved simply disabling a couple of simple settings in the
initial update. *That* is where the focus should be.