[aabdocker]

In the comment that person says:

> I understand your anger, but this is a volunteer. It seems obvous to me too that he messed up because the latest version is broken for me too. but let's cut him a little slack

I also don't agree. This project is featured on the homepage of add-ons list and I bet thousands of people rely on it. That's not how things work, software should be tested. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

[parennoob]

I try hard not to be the "you should ask for your money back" person, but I don't see that hand-wringing like this is any use as regards open-source software.

"Software should be tested" is indirect speech which leaves out the subject. Who should ensure that the tests are in the codebase? The creator? The writer of this update? If this was a first-time volunteer and his patches were acked by someone, the person who cleared them is arguably more at fault – the original contributor should not be blamed.

Developing OSS is a complex endeavor depending upon the donated time of hundreds of people. Sometimes I'm surprised that there are well-functioning, robust pieces of OSS out there at all.