[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases

Thu Feb 9 12:35:41 CET 2012

> On 9 February 2012 11:33, D.Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> I doubt that we will lose any (or many) users interested in the latest
+>>> version, as all distros will be faced with this time lag relative to
+>>> upstream.
+>>
+>> I would suggests to stuck on cauldron to version 10.x and in mageia 1
+>> too and to start to update again as soon as cauldron is open again.
+>>
+>> some objections ?
+>
+> I think quite a lot users would want the latest version.
+>
+> For now Fedora & Ubuntu keep updating to latest version.
+> We shouldn't stick to ESR releases unless other do,
+> especially since we're a long way of being present
+> in enterprises...
+>
+> Last but not least: please only _QUOTE_ what you respond to next time.
+>
+
+ihmo, the users who want the latest versions will not even wait one week,
+and will grab them from upstream. If we really wanted the latest release,
+someone could backport them.
+
+the end users will benefit too, because the modules/plugins will still
+work and not being unstable at every update. as a long time stable user, i
+prefer the ESR... we've been complaining about too short releasecycles...
+this is the answer, we should use it.
+