On Saturday, July 30, 2011 07:19:39 AM Jens Hatlak wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > I'm a fan of feature release followed by n (n>=1) bug fix releases,
> > so you get a usable version fairly often, like stability releases
> > for the Linux kernel, that kind of thing.
>
> Me too, but as I explained in some other post, we don't have much of
> a choice anymore for the most part. As far as the address book
> breakage is concerned: We could have done a minor version update for
> that if we had found the issue earlier (the breakage on the
> development branch, trunk, was known and much larger, but the
> release branch d&d issue was unknown) *and* had a reviewed (!) fix
> in hand. The fix that I'm talking about has only been finished about
> a week ago, in time for SM 2.3, which is not too far off anymore
> (currently in beta), so releasing a 2.2.1 at this point doesn't make
> much sense.
>
> > The fact that 2.2, with broken address book, was not considered a
> > brown bag release and quickly followed by 2.2.1 indicates that
> > quantity is more important than quality.
>
> 2.2 was rushed, so much is true.
>
> > I know SM uses some shared TBird code, the one person I know who
> > uses TBird tells me address book is still broken in the nightly
> > she tried. Sigh.
>
> I don't think that's true. The TB developers made a change that broke
> us (because we were missing a part on our side), not the other way
> around.
>
> > I'm grateful for the work people do, but I think the whole Mozilla
> > effort has lost its way. It feels as if Firefox is the only thing
> > which still gets QA resources and fixes in a timely manner.
>
> 90% true. The other 10% is for TB. [Note: IMO]
>
> > And IIRC the fixes in SM address book were rejected for TBird,
> >
> > so it would have to be maintained in SM long term.
>
> Again, I think you got something wrong there.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jens
Did they fix the export problems with addressbook? When I export a
distrution list it exports the whole addressbook instead. It also drops
some of the contacts and a blank field appears to to filled with the
next field in order.
--
Russ
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