Shouldn't only patches (which proved to be stable in the nightlys) be PORTED to beta? Moving a whole release just moves all the experimental features as well...
Experimental features are behind feature flags which means that they get disabled with the merge to beta, here is an example from the source code:
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-c...
For example - our companies mail boxes are not allowed to go above 1 GB. So, in KMail, I have a rule that says to automatically move messages older than 90 days from my IMAP inbox to my local inbox. This automatically protects me from having my inbox overflow, and I still get to keep all my messages for archival.
Can I do even this simple task in Thunderbird, no. In thunderbird menu "Tools/messages/filyters/new filter" Filter: Age in days - greater than - 90 Action: mover to - local folder x
Since it's an IMAP account, this will be applied everytime you launch Thunderbird. You can even apply it manually by opening the message filters and clicking on "run filters".
I have been using it since Thunderbird 1.5 I think, works fine.
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don't use Thunderbird simply because it doesn't have a Received Date option? I'm not kidding you. Every person I've EVER talked to about Thunderbird and why they don't use it brought this up. Its all these stupid little issues that they just ignore that got them where they are today.
This option has been available for a long time in Thunderbird, what are you using? Thunderbird 1.0????
>I think its very easy to get a european mentality and think the US is a little bigger than greece but not as big as france, when in reality its just huge with many major cities are far apart from another. This makes easy european-like travel where very far cities are 100-300km away impossible because many US cities are 10x that distance: 1000-4000 km away.
I suggest you open a world map someday, you know, the world is not exactly like it is depicted in Foxnews, Europe is as big as the USA (actually bigger if you include Ukraine and Russia) and big cities are not 100-300km far from each other.
I'd have expected a French governmental institute to have chosen a good French product like Mandriva over an British on like Ubuntu (Conanical Ltd. is registered in the Isle of Man). Those French do so love their protectionism at the expense of flexibility and a fair market, after all.
It may also mean that your view of the French mindset is not totally accurate ?;)
Because there are tons of local companies specialized in giving support to OSS, the two companies that won the bid (Linagora and Unilog) are services companies.
Firefox 3 is one year from now and there is a 6 months support for version 2 after Firefox 3 is released, which means that Firefox 2 will still be supported in the 18 months to come, more if some companies decides to finance the maintaining of the 1.8.1 branch for security fixes.
Today Win98 is below 5% market share, in mid 2008 it will be like what ? 1% of users ? That's not worth hindering the overall progress of Firefox, especially since security fixes for Firefox in 2008 will not be particulary relevant in an abandonned OS with security holes all over the place. If somebody still uses 98 in 2008, it means that they don't care about basic security and will use unpatched firefox 2 without any problem.
ah... you mean that the typical anglo-slashdotter posting anti-French comments everytime a news more or less remotely relates to something happening in France is expressing sarcasm ? I thought it was just good old racism and that this kind of comments should be replied to a factual level, but that's just me, you can keep rateing these comments as sarcasm/humor...
This is by far not the biggest migration to openSource in France, actually, the only reason why you see it in Slashdot is because it mentions "paris", it doens't even make the subtitles of French opensource portals.
The whole French administration is slowly turning to opensource, currently for instance the Gendarmerie (police) is updating all their 40.000 PCs to OOo + Firefox/Thunderbird, the Tax administration announced last week that they are currently deploying Oo on their 80.000 Pcs and have already registered an immediate 29Million benefit because of it (2006 licence fees), the Police Nationale (the other Police administration besides Gendarmerie) has been using Oo for 2 years already etc.
An official from Gendarmerie explained that leaving MSoffice for OpenOffice had an immediate benefit beside the very cost of the licences, they were able to disolve a whole department with several people paid only to make sure that the thousands of Gendarmerie buildings in France (metropolitan and abroad) were using legally licenced MSoffice suites ! Cops were paid to make sure that the licences were all paid instead of working on the street to arrest thieves...
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Shouldn't only patches (which proved to be stable in the nightlys) be PORTED to beta? Moving a whole release just moves all the experimental features as well ...
Experimental features are behind feature flags which means that they get disabled with the merge to beta, here is an example from the source code: http://searchfox.org/mozilla-c...
Can I do even this simple task in Thunderbird, no. In thunderbird menu "Tools/messages/filyters/new filter"
Filter: Age in days - greater than - 90
Action: mover to - local folder x
Since it's an IMAP account, this will be applied everytime you launch Thunderbird. You can even apply it manually by opening the message filters and clicking on "run filters".
I have been using it since Thunderbird 1.5 I think, works fine.
This option has been available for a long time in Thunderbird, what are you using? Thunderbird 1.0????
>I think its very easy to get a european mentality and think the US is a little bigger than greece but not as big as france, when in reality its just huge with many major cities are far apart from another. This makes easy european-like travel where very far cities are 100-300km away impossible because many US cities are 10x that distance: 1000-4000 km away.
I suggest you open a world map someday, you know, the world is not exactly like it is depicted in Foxnews, Europe is as big as the USA (actually bigger if you include Ukraine and Russia) and big cities are not 100-300km far from each other.
Because there are tons of local companies specialized in giving support to OSS, the two companies that won the bid (Linagora and Unilog) are services companies.
Firefox 3 is one year from now and there is a 6 months support for version 2 after Firefox 3 is released, which means that Firefox 2 will still be supported in the 18 months to come, more if some companies decides to finance the maintaining of the 1.8.1 branch for security fixes.
Today Win98 is below 5% market share, in mid 2008 it will be like what ? 1% of users ? That's not worth hindering the overall progress of Firefox, especially since security fixes for Firefox in 2008 will not be particulary relevant in an abandonned OS with security holes all over the place. If somebody still uses 98 in 2008, it means that they don't care about basic security and will use unpatched firefox 2 without any problem.
ah... you mean that the typical anglo-slashdotter posting anti-French comments everytime a news more or less remotely relates to something happening in France is expressing sarcasm ? I thought it was just good old racism and that this kind of comments should be replied to a factual level, but that's just me, you can keep rateing these comments as sarcasm/humor...
This is by far not the biggest migration to openSource in France, actually, the only reason why you see it in Slashdot is because it mentions "paris", it doens't even make the subtitles of French opensource portals. The whole French administration is slowly turning to opensource, currently for instance the Gendarmerie (police) is updating all their 40.000 PCs to OOo + Firefox/Thunderbird, the Tax administration announced last week that they are currently deploying Oo on their 80.000 Pcs and have already registered an immediate 29Million benefit because of it (2006 licence fees), the Police Nationale (the other Police administration besides Gendarmerie) has been using Oo for 2 years already etc. An official from Gendarmerie explained that leaving MSoffice for OpenOffice had an immediate benefit beside the very cost of the licences, they were able to disolve a whole department with several people paid only to make sure that the thousands of Gendarmerie buildings in France (metropolitan and abroad) were using legally licenced MSoffice suites ! Cops were paid to make sure that the licences were all paid instead of working on the street to arrest thieves...
Of course, openoffice is translated in dozens of languages among them French (and the translation is of very good level).