Jens Hatlak wrote:
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
> It was deemed for Firefox not to upgrade from "last beta" to
"release", I decided to follow suit.
> I will be building 2.5b1 ASAP, and our b3 will upgrade to that.
I am not a beta tester, so blissfully unaffected by this.
Right, and the fact that your are not a beta tester explains that you
don't understand the reasoning.
I am a beta user who also did not like not getting the upgrade to
final offer. I normally run the beta on my laptop (which gets the
most use) and the stable on my desktops. When I got the 2.4 upgrade
notice on my desktop, before upgrading I checked for updates on my
2.4b3 laptop and their weren't any. Strange, so I checked the byte
count and md5sum of the b3 and release to see if per chance nothing
had changed, and they were not identical. So I downloaded 2.4 final
to my laptop and installed it which takes me off the beta channel. I
don't upgrade anything on the desktops until I've tested it because
they are not backed up as often.
So by not offering the final upgrade to the beta channel you have lost
at least one beta tester until/if I explicitly download and install a
beta. And as alternate browser user going back to Mosaic I too don't
agree with many of the Mozilla developers decisions (think about
it....if splitting the suite had been a good decision there would be
no SeaMonkey) so don't think doing what they do is necessarily good.
Jim
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