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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Failing that, do you think writing an
addon for this might be feasible?<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:52087A36.6090405@iki.fi" type="cite">I'd set
the approval-comm-aurora and beta flags, and hope for the best :)
<br>
It's a fairly small patch with no localization changes so landing
it for 24 shouldn't be out of the question.
<br>
<br>
-Magnus
<br>
<br>
On 12.8.2013 02:18, The Wanderer wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Since it's so late in the TB24 release
process, it's been suggested that
<br>
I bring this up here, rather than just requesting
approval-comm-aurora
<br>
(or would that be approval-comm-beta by now?) on the relevant
bug. If
<br>
that's the wrong approach, please let me know, and I can submit
<br>
whichever request would be appropriate there for whatever
discussion
<br>
might be needed.
<br>
<br>
<br>
I would like to see the fix for bug 495946 (a pref to allow
threads to
<br>
be sorted by the date of the root message, rather than the
newest one)
<br>
make it into the TB24 "full release" / ESR, either as part of
the
<br>
initial release, or as part of one of the subsequent point
releases.
<br>
<br>
It is not a fix for a crash or other stability problem, or for a
<br>
security hole; it is technically a fix for a regression, but the
<br>
regression occurred in the transition from Thunderbird 2 to
Thunderbird
<br>
3, so it can't be considered urgent on that basis. It fixes the
<br>
regression not by restoring the exact old behavior, but by
implementing
<br>
new functionality which improves on the original behavior.
<br>
<br>
I personally consider the behavior which regressed to be
absolutely
<br>
essential, to the extent that I have remained on Thunderbird 2
to date
<br>
rather than migrate to a version without it. However, I appear
to be
<br>
distinctly in the minority in that regard.
<br>
<br>
There do not appear to be any existing tests which cover thread
sorting
<br>
order per se, but all existing tests which cover message sorting
at all
<br>
appear to pass with this fix included. The introduced behavior
is also
<br>
off by default (behind a pref which defaults to false), so the
fix
<br>
should not change anything for anyone who doesn't want to change
it.
<br>
<br>
<br>
The reason I would like to see this included in the TB24 ESR is
that the
<br>
ESR is now the basis of the Thunderbird variant provided by my
Linux
<br>
distribution (Debian); if this is not included in the TB24 ESR,
I will
<br>
not see it through my distro until the TB31 ESR, a good year
away.
<br>
<br>
In the absence of a distro-provided version which includes the
fix, my
<br>
only options would be to A: maintain it as a patch against the
distro
<br>
version, B: run a non-distro-managed Thunderbird, or C: continue
to
<br>
remain on TB2. None of these is desirable.
<br>
<br>
<br>
I recognize that the odds of this getting accepted for inclusion
in the
<br>
TB24 ESR release at this point are very slim, but they're even
slimmer
<br>
if I don't even ask for it. So, I'm asking: what would the
prospects for
<br>
getting this included in the TB24 ESR release line (whether
initially or
<br>
in a point release) be? More to the point, who would I have to
convince,
<br>
and what sort of thing would it take to be convincing?
<br>
<br>
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