I would be fine with sticking to 17 until 24 comes out if they do apply security fixes. I don't know what other features I would be missing in between from the betas, but as long as I don't get rooted while reading my mails, I'm happy to stick with something older.
2013/1/4 Landry Breuil <lan...@rhaalovely.net>: > 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 > -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
