[20662] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape 6.23 disappeared?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Aug 29 14:25:25 2002
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:25:22 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
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t. belton <tbelton@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 29 Aug 2002
at 14:20:50 -0400 in <Pine.GSO.4.33L.0208291414340.24898-100000@iphigenia.mit.edu>:
> It has been removed because we will be using Mozilla instead. There
> were no announcements of its removal because it was never there for
> general availability in the first place.
Yay! I'm certainly quite pleased to hear this.
> 6.23 in infoagents was there for testing with an eye toward future
> "release," but it never got that far. (In other words, no one should have
> been dependent on it being there.) Sorry to have taken you by surprise. On
> the other hand, it didn't work very well at all; that's why we're using
> Mozilla.
I have to say, philosophically this is poor.
If you put it in a locker, people will use it. You should _not_
remove it without announcing it, perhaps with a wrapper script
or email or something. Remember, quota is almost infinite for you,
and "we didn't have enough room for Mozilla and 6.23 together" is
not an ok excuse...
[ I've dropped the user from the cc list... ]
Hmm, I think that sounds too critical. Sorry. But in the future, please
try to handle transitions more smoothly...
--jhawk
