Hi, as some of you may have heard, mozilla decided to slow down the development of thundebird (or rather, reattribute the resources) (more background here https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/, more actual releng details here https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model)
what that means now for end users in the coming months : - there will be no tb 18 release along fx 18. And that until 24, where there will be a new 'major' release built from gecko 24. - there will be a tb 17.0.x release along each fx release. It will be based on gecko 17 (ie mozilla-esr17 repo + comm-release) - this is different from 17.0.xESR releases, there will be more stuff added to those 17.0.x release (ie minor features, more non-critical bugfixes that are not taken for ESR) - there will still be a 18 beta & 19 beta (etc) until 24 beta. A real release built from mozilla-beta + comm-beta repositories, where new 'major community-contributed features' will bake, and tracks firefox/gecko development. This is already confusing enough in terms of PR & branches, so i'll stop here. What do thunderbird users want for the openbsd port ? rather tracking the 17.0.x release (and 24.0.x release after that..) ? or be a bit adventurous & use the -beta releases which track mozilla/firefox more closely ? Fwiw i use the betas daily, and they work fine. (no i WONT make two separate ports. get real.) I'd love to hear feedback from people who care. Landry
