I agree with Janne. After all it's a mail client and it does more or less everything a mail client is supposed to do. I never missed any features in TB. So I'm happy to stick with a older version + security patches.
Beni On 01/05/2013 10:03 AM, Janne Johansson wrote: > 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 >> > > >
