Minor Thunderbird fix with major visibility; any chance of sneaking it into F14?

[Jonathan Kamens]

 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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