Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
You are probably almost certainly correct. The problem is, the release notes do not provide any of this background -- we the users have no way of knowing which features were deliberately introduced by the Seamonkey team, which were carried over from Firefox/Gecko because they appeared to the Seamonkey team to be a good idea, and which were carried over because although the Seamonkey team viewed them as deleterious, they lacked the resources to replace them with something better (or to omit them completely).
In my opinion the release notes are not the place to go into ANY diatribe about "why" a feature is there, was removed, or changed. It is there to describe WHAT changed, and in some cases (known issues) how to avoid some common problems/issues.
The most likely place to get the information on "what" and "why" is the SeaMonkey bi-weekly meeting [and/or the meeting notes] or these newsgroups.
If you see something in the release notes that you think warrants more explanation, a simple "So, I don't understand, was something broken with the old bookmarks system? why did you guys change it so drastically?" which would get a response [paraphrased] like "Old code was unmaintained, we are using the Core code, and tied that into SeaMonkey in the best way we could"
That type of question gets a much clearer answer (in that regard) than a post like [exaggeration] "I hate you all, you broke 'groupmarks'! You should all rot in hell. I'm transferring to chrome"
-- ~Justin Wood (Callek), SeaMonkey Council Member _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
