On 12/29/2010 04:15 AM, Neil wrote: > NoOp wrote: > >> 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 point of "maintenance". New > features are always developed on trunk. At some point, we'll put a > temporary freeze on new features, to allow as many remaining bugs in > those features to be discovered and fixed. Locale strings are also > normally frozen at this point. Eventually we decide we're ready and > create a release branch. Development on the next version of SeaMonkey > can then restart on trunk (in practice we don't have the resources > for this until after the release.) Meanwhile the release branch fixes > last-minute bugs at which point we can then release the x.x.0 > version. But that's not the end of the branch; bugs are always being > found, and if they have a severe impact (e.g. data loss, crash) then > they are fixed on the branch and typically every month a maintenance > release containing these fixes is delivered. >
I don't think that I've misunderstood; the bug was opened in November 2009 with 2.0.1pre & 1.1.18. It was/is well documented, and is an outstanding issue going back to January 2009 (Firefox), see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475896. It is NOT a "New feature". There are thousands of 2.0.x SeaMonkey users (at least one would hope so) out there that still have this issue. Marking the bug as 'FIXED' on a yet to be released 2.1 trunk IMO simply doesn't cut it IMO. If we expect users to install 2.1pre versions simply so that they can copy & paste a url from the url bar, then I suspect that no fixes in any "current" version of SeaMonkey (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/) will ever be satisfied. Here is a paste of: <https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your system> directly from 2.0.11. There are of course more examples in the bug report, but that one works for me. You know as well as I the release dates: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Old So my point & questions stand. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
