On the topic of nice-to-have bugs, there is a minor but extremely visible Thunderbird bug which many, many people have encountered and for which the Mozilla folks have a fix from me in hand, but they've failed to get it into several Thunderbird releases now because of procedural issues (it's a patch to the Mozilla core, not to Thunderbird code, so the barrier to acceptance is much higher) and resource issues (the folks who need to be involved in allowing it to pass through that barrier are unfortunately very much dragging their feet).
The issue is documented at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564737. It currently has 79 people on its CC list and 62 votes. I can't find a way to run a report on bug CC list sizes, but it has more votes than any other open Thunderbird bug. I am wondering if we can sneak it into the Thunderbird that's distributed with Fedora for F14. We already have a number of Fedora-specific Thunderbird patches, so adding one more would not be doing something completely new. We would be patching just the Thunderbird source, not the Mozilla core, so we would be avoiding the procedural issues that the Mozilla developers are stuck with since they can't accept this patch until it's approved by the core developers, who have apparently not made it a priority, because Thunderbird is far less important to them than Firefox. It would score some points for Fedora because it would no longer have this bug while the other distributions would continue to have it. And it would get the package out to a /lot/ of people, which might help the Mozilla core folks to feel more comfortable about finally accepting it themselves. Thanks, jik
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