Interviewed by CNN on 07/08/2011 21:29, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: > MCBastos wrote: > >> But, the thing is, with limited resources available, supporting >> those old releases means that the new release does not receive as >> much work as it needs. With Seamonkey tied to the every-six-weeks >> Mozilla release schedule, delaying release is not an option. So >> supporting the old releases is no longer viable. > > As our parents used to ask, "If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would > you do it, too?" Just because the FF people decided to rush things and > churn out a series of half-baked products for the sake of keeping up > with the Joneses, why should we ape them? > > (and /please/ don't ask me to keep my metaphors straight)
I don't mind your mixed metaphors, but I DO resent your loaded question. It's cheap rhetoric device devoid of content. First of all, I reject the premise that FF would be "churning half-baked products". This is simply not true. In fact, it has been argued that the new rapid-release schedule IMPROVES quality, since each release goes through twelve weeks of testing (Aurora and Beta stages) with *no new features added*, just debugging. In the old scheme, there was always the temptation to add new features with the product close to release, since the next release would be maybe a year away. And sometimes those new features *were* half-baked. Second, Seamonkey does depend on Gecko and other Mozilla technologies. SM 2.2 runs on Gecko 5. As soon as Firefox 6 is released, Gecko 5 stop receiving security and stability patches. Which means that any newly-discovered bugs on Gecko 5 (and therefore Seamonkey 2.2) will remain unpatched. So, yeah, we DO have to release SM 2.3 with Gecko 6, if we want to give our users a secure browser. We don't have a team of Gecko experts to backport new patches to Gecko 5. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my TRS-80 *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.1 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
