Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Actually, Mozilla is trying to work with commercial users to find
solutions that work for them while allowing us to ship progress rapidly.
Robert, is there evidence to support the hypothesis that
Seamonkey users /want/ Mozilla to "ship progress regularly" ?
I think Robert was mainly speaking from the Firefox point of view, which
is his main work focus now.
From my reading of this list (which is, of course,
biased by my own perspectives), it seems to me that
the majority of Seamonkey users would prefer stability
and security in preference to regularly-shipped progress.
Well, even some developers (like me) agree with the above statement, but
to be blunt: That doesn't matter. SM releases depend on the Mozilla
platform, which is where the vast majority of security issues is to be
found (since it includes the rendering engine, protocol stack etc.). The
maintainers of that (= Mozilla a.k.a. Firefox, Inc.) decided to switch
to the rapid release train and drop minor releases. The SM developers do
not have the man-power to maintain a fork or even branch of the
platform, so there is no choice but to jump the train. All we can do is
try and improve our QA and what we include on our side of the code base
in the first place.
HTH
Jens
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Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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