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On 7/29/2012 2:05 PM, Andy G wrote:<br>
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Hi. I am wondering if there are any plans to address this bug
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in future versions of Thunderbird? <br>
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The bug that you listed is a SeaMonkey bug. I believe that the
equivalent bug for Thunderbird is:<br>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487386"><b>Bug 487386</b></a>
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That bug has everything permitted within Bugzilla to scream for
attention:<br>
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[ux-papercut], [gs], [UXprio], 25 dups, 52 votes, major importance,
wanted-thunderbird, user whine with official "do not whine in BMO"
response, etc.<br>
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Yet unfortunately the answer to your question is "there are no plans
to address this bug".<br>
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Personally I think this is a travesty, and it is bugs like that that
get me motivated to improve our general qc process. Looking at the
papercuts list, I nominated it as a bug, but only got one supporter
for that, so it did not make the official first list. What we really
need is a group process <b><i>that we actually use to choose bugs
to work on</i></b> where important stakeholds in Thunderbird
have the opportunity to influence which problems get addressed.<br>
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There are existing processes in both BMO and gs that attempt to do
this. I don't really understand why those processes are not used in
a more effective way to influence development. People have followed
our process, this bug is easily a top 5 bug we should be looking at,
yet we don't.<br>
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Perhaps others who have been more involved for the last few years
while I have been off in addon land can give a better answer to
this. But let's look to the future, what can we change to better
address these types of bugs?<br>
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rkent<br>
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