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

Fri Feb 10 16:58:01 CET 2012

Op vrijdag 10 februari 2012 15:34:37 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Florian Hubold wrote:
+> > Our update policy already has an exception for Firefox, and so far there
+> > were no bigger issues during updates from our initial 4.0 to 10.0. And
+> > if most other distros don't use ESR, we're kind of alienated, and users
+> > will ask why we do that, because we're not aimed at enterprise usage
+> > currently.
+> 
+> There was an exception for firefox because there was no other choice.
+> Now that mozilla provide supported stable versions, there is no reason
+> to keep the exception. What would be the reason to keep updating firefox
+> to the latest version and not do the same for all other software ?
+
+that is exactly my point.
+
+plus we can't always look at what other distro's do, because they aren't 
+necessarily "right" or "wrong". and indeed, there is no need to have 2 
+versions, and twice the QA. (unless if there is enough people who want to put 
+time on it, i think the current maintainer has already quite enough work.)
+
+consider even the poll from a while ago, where it was quite clear that people 
+wanted support and stability, not the latest versions. and the more features 
+we have, the more risk of new bugs.
+
+I don't like exceptions, and this is a good reason to get rid of one.
+