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

Fri Jan 13 10:36:36 CET 2012

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Sander Lepik wrote:
+
+> 13.01.2012 03:20, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas:
+>> see https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox-
+>> extended-support-release/
+>> see https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/9d/Esr-release-overview.png
+>>
+>> ESR is a 1y extended supported release...
+>>
+>> looking at the image we'd be having supported versions for our 9month release
+>> schedule every time... we should totally use this release and not go towards
+>> FF11 for our release.
+>>
+>> We've been complaining about the too quick release schedule... this is our
+>> chance!
+>>
+>> ( i think if the FF maintainer wishes, he could also do backports of the
+>> regular releases... )
+>>
+>> i'm hoping everyone agrees? including FF maintainer?
+> I don't agree. But i'm not the maintainer.
+>
+> Why not?
+> * Since fx10 all non-binary extensions are compatible by default (so our 
+> main problem goes away).
+> * fx10 in 6 months is dead old for users POV. Many unhappy users. Lower 
+> popularity for Mageia. (Ubuntu AFAIK is going with fast schedule).
+> * We will miss too many new and cool features.
+> * When we release
+
+We could say the same about any other software. Firefox was an exception
+on updates policy because there was no other choice. But there's no
+reason to keep it as an exception when they provide a supported version.
+
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