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But i'm not the maintainer. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Why not? +</I>><i> >> * Since fx10 all non-binary extensions are compatible by default (so our +</I>><i> >> main problem goes away). +</I>><i> >> * fx10 in 6 months is dead old for users POV. Many unhappy users. Lower +</I>><i> >> popularity for Mageia. (Ubuntu AFAIK is going with fast schedule). +</I>><i> >> * We will miss too many new and cool features. +</I>><i> >> * When we release +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > We could say the same about any other software. Firefox was an exception +</I>><i> > on updates policy because there was no other choice. But there's no +</I>><i> > reason to keep it as an exception when they provide a supported version. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> With 12 months support more often than not it would need updating in the +</I>><i> lifespan of the Mageia 9 month release anyway. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Firefox is one of those programs that people like to be bang up to date +</I>><i> with. +</I> +All softwares are one of those programs. The only one that some non +technical users do not want to be updated are those that they do not +know, like glibc, python, perl. But still, there is people that want it +up to date, so firefox is nothing special. + +><i> It is 'bragging rights' to ship with the latest and something +</I>><i> reviewers always give version numbers of along with libreoffice, kde, gnome. +</I> +Sure, and we neither update libreoffice, kde, gnome or the linux kernel. +Some people do ( kde is upated by Fedora, as well as the linux kernel ). +So that's a consistency issue, about what we promise to users. + +Stability is just that, stuff that do not have interface changes every 6 +weeks, stuff that do not have slight mistranslation everytime string +change, stuff that do not risk breaking software after every updates. + +><i> I understand the arguments to go with the 12 months support but I think +</I>><i> for the reasons above we should stick with the normal release cycle or +</I>><i> maybe even offer both? +</I> +Offering both would mean to double our workload of supporting firefox, +and have no advantages by using the long supported release. + +And that's rather useless from my point of view, if the goal is to +reduce the workload. There is already enough work to support the +distribution. + + + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011329.html">[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011331.html">[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11330">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11330">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11330">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11330">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |