{"id":199,"date":"2007-10-18T12:33:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T12:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillacalendar2.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/18\/future_of_lightning_support_fo\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T12:33:46","slug":"future_of_lightning_support_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/2007\/10\/future_of_lightning_support_fo\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Lightning support for TB 1.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the notice at the top of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/thunderbird\/all-older.html\">http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/thunderbird\/all-older.html<\/a> that as of today TB 1.5 will no longer be supported, I was thinking whether it would make sense to drop support for the TB 1.5 series <u><strong>after<\/strong><\/u> the 0.7 release.<\/p>\n<p>I see the following reasons for this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As the TB 1.5 core code is pretty old, it hurts in a variety of places. See <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=330121\">bug 330121<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=351997\">bug 351997<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=389384\">bug 389384<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=397920\">bug 397920<\/a> for examples<\/li>\n<li>We have a very small team of core developers. And testing changes on TB 2, TB 1.5 and Sunbird puts a great burden on their shoulders. Dropping TB 1.5 from the requirements list would ease that burden<\/li>\n<li>Our testing community uses TB 2 almost exclusively, so TB 1.5 specific bugs are often found very late if ever<\/li>\n<li>Most Thunderbird users will probably already have made the switch to TB 2. So we wouldn&#8217;t lose lots of users here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would be interested in hearing your feedback on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the notice at the top of http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/thunderbird\/all-older.html that as of today TB 1.5 will no longer be supported, I was thinking whether it would make sense to drop support for the TB 1.5 series after the 0.7 release. I see the following reasons for this: As the TB 1.5 core code is pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}