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

Sun Jan 15 01:43:41 CET 2012

Le 13/01/2012 02:22, D.Morgan a écrit :
+> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Maarten Vanraes<alien at rmail.be>  wrote:
+>> 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?
+>
+>
+> seems we should stuck to FF 10 as default release for mageia2.
+>
+
+I don't have strong opinion about this choice.
+
+some various points that we should take into account:
+- I didn't find recent official announcement about ESR for other mozilla 
+applications (Thunderbird, Seamonkey/Iceape, ...); I think that we 
+should have consistent versions, at least for Firefox and Thunderbird.
+- mozilla updates without security fixes are uncommon, so we will not 
+reduce the number of update with ESR; the update will only have less 
+changes, so less risk of regressions.
+- If we don't choose Firefox ESR, we should at least consider using ESR 
+for xulrunner.
+
+-- 
+Luc Menut
+