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

Fri Jan 13 12:21:12 CET 2012

On 13/01/12 09:36, nicolas vigier wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+
+With 12 months support more often than not it would need updating in the 
+lifespan of the Mageia 9 month release anyway.
+
+Firefox is one of those programs that people like to be bang up to date 
+with. It is 'bragging rights' to ship with the latest and something 
+reviewers always give version numbers of along with libreoffice, kde, gnome.
+
+I understand the arguments to go with the 12 months support but I think 
+for the reasons above we should stick with the normal release cycle or 
+maybe even offer both?
+
+Claire
+