On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan(a)jonmasters.org> wrote:
Things like Firefox, and Thunderbird have large external teams
maintaining them who appear to have goals around ensuring a consistent
user experience, with testing, and so forth, over and above just getting
new features. They even do self-updating on some platforms, etc. I would
say they are fantastic examples of packages where you can get away with
a lower commitment in favor of updating them more frequently because the
upstream is known to have the user experience interest as a top priority
over adding new features. But that isn't a given for every single piece
of software by any means, especially when it comes to upstream testing.
Uhm wait... wasn't a mid release update to thunderbird one of the
historic examples of a large behavior change that precipitated a
strong negative reaction? I think you are careening well away from
fact based argument here.
-jef