Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-12 Thread sean nathan bean
sean nathan bean sent me the following:: Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) sent me the following:: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: >> Insert -> Characters and Symbols >> has no options. > > Rob, unfortunately this is a known issue, I plan to release an addon within the week to correct this, as a h

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-09 Thread Keith Whaley
Excellent analogy, Sir Phillip! :-) Pertinent, accurate and most amusing all at the same time. Thanks, keith whaley Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: MCBastos wrote: To draw a very simple parallel, there's very little haste and stress involved in getting on the subway to travel cross

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-08 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 08/10/2011 15:38, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) told the world: > Well, let's explore your metaphor further -- let's say you were used First of all, that's not *my* metaphor. That's a *different* metaphor superficially similar because both use trains. But that's all right

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-08 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
MCBastos wrote: To draw a very simple parallel, there's very little haste and stress involved in getting on the subway to travel cross-town... because if I miss this train, there will be another a few minutes later, and you can get on it with minimum effort and little lost time. Getting on a p

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-07 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 07/10/2011 16:05, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: > The usual expectation, based on experience in a wide variety of fields, > is that "haste makes waste," so if we see someone rushing and making > mistakes, we usually attribute the mistakes to the rushing. So the > quest

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-07 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
On 10/7/2011 3:05 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: The usual expectation, based on experience in a wide variety of fields, is that "haste makes waste," so if we see someone rushing and making mistakes, we usually attribute the mistakes to the rushing. So the question here is whether the devs are work

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-07 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 06/10/2011 20:12, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: 1) rapid release tends to promote sloppy work, products not ready for prime time, and poor product reduces market share; Actually, KaiRo argued very convincingly that the rapid release has exactly the o

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread PhillipJones
PhillipJones wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 06/10/2011 20:12, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: 1) rapid release tends to promote sloppy work, products not ready for prime time, and poor product reduces market share; Actually, KaiRo argued very convincingly that the rapid relea

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread PhillipJones
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 06/10/2011 20:12, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: 1) rapid release tends to promote sloppy work, products not ready for prime time, and poor product reduces market share; Actually, KaiRo argued very convincingly that the rapid release has exactly the op

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 06/10/2011 20:12, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: > 1) rapid release tends to promote sloppy work, products not ready for > prime time, and poor product reduces market share; Actually, KaiRo argued very convincingly that the rapid release has exactly the opposite effect:

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread sean nathan bean
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) sent me the following:: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: >> Insert -> Characters and Symbols >> has no options. > > Rob, unfortunately this is a known issue, I plan to release an addon within the week to correct this, as a hotfix. and will get the real fix into

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
MCBastos wrote: While it looks nice in theory, in practice I don't know if it's feasible. I see a number of problems with it. The first, the biggest one, is that for 75% or the time Seamonkey will be running on an *unsupported* and *unmaintained* version of Gecko. Any Gecko issues (including ve

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 06/10/2011 11:55, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) told the world: > > > Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: > > >> Insert -> Characters and Symbols > >> has no options. > > > > Rob, unfortunately this is a known issue, I plan to release an addon > within the week to correct t

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread Lee
On 10/6/11, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: > > >> Insert -> Characters and Symbols > >> has no options. > > > > Rob, unfortunately this is a known issue, I plan to release an addon > within the week to correct this, as a hotfix. and will get the real

Re: Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread Rob Steinmetz
I particularly like the Ubuntu LTS option. But That would require Firefox to go along with it. Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: >> Insert -> Characters and Symbols >> has no options. > > Rob, unfortunately this is a known issue, I plan to release an add

Towards an alternative way forward for Seamonkey

2011-10-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: >> Insert -> Characters and Symbols >> has no options. > > Rob, unfortunately this is a known issue, I plan to release an addon within the week to correct this, as a hotfix. and will get the real fix into a 2.4.2 *IFF* there is another reason for a "chemspill" rele