Ricardo Palomares Martínez wrote:
NoOp escribió:
Phillip Chee pointed out this in:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531210
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531210#c15>
<quote>
The SeaMonkey 2.0.x branch is in maintenance mode. Only security and
stability fixes are allowed.
</quote>
If this is the case, then shouldn't standard users be notified of this on:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
particularly since that is the "Official" download site and the supposed
official release of SeaMonkey?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but SeaMonkey 2.0.x entered into maintenance
mode since the 2.0.0 version, as usually happens with every Mozilla
product (the only exception I remember of is Firefox 3.6.4, when OOPP
feature was introduced).
Being in maintenance mode doesn't mean it is insecure or that it has
reached is End Of Life. It means that no new features will be added to
that branch. This is no news at all in Mozilla world since I remember
(and I'm involved as a localizer to it since 2002).
As a 'User' of SeaMonkey (in both personal and production environments),
I'd appreciate an "official" comment from the SeaMonkey devs/project
management as to whether SeaMonkey 2.0 is "in maintenance mode" and if
"Only security and stability fixes are allowed" for 2.0.
I'm not an official voice for SeaMonkey Council, but I'm pretty sure
the above (both yours and mine) assertions are true.
I'd also appreciate comments as to the direction of SeaMonkey;
- will users go through yet another SM 1.x to 2.0 transition in the near
future?
The transition will be 2.0 to 2.1 and it hopefully will be ready
shortly after Firefox 4 launch (although this largely depends of
available time of core contributors, besides how many people can help
with bugs).
- will provisions be made for importing/exporting lightning calendars?
That's my biggest concern, too. :-)
- what can users expect in the 2.0 to 2.1 transition?
If you test SM2.1b1, you can see most of the changes. From my own
experience, most of the changes are seamless and for the better; I
only found some problems importing bookmarks, but I didn't really try
it seriously. Well, and of course, Lightning doesn't work at all at
the moment.
Lightning 1.1a1pre (32-bit) works just fine for me in SM 2.1b2pre
(32-bit) on openSUSE 11.3.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/nightly/linux-xpi/
Look for the 12/27 1423 KB release, seems like the nightly hasn't been
updated since then. Probably no 64-bit version.
As you all know, it was a pretty difficult transition for some users to
go from SM 1.x to 2.0. If 2.0 is now "maintenance only" mode, then I
wonder if it is worth continuing with SeaMonkey further.
I think you have misunderstood the meaning of "maintenance mode". It
has always been that way for every major release in Mozilla (as I
said, with the OOPP exception of Firefox 3.6.4) that no new features
are added and only security and stability fixes are provided for minor
releases.
HTH
--
SeaMonkey 2.1b2pre
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