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

Sun Jan 15 03:10:31 CET 2012

Luc Menut a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+I'm almost certain that Seamonkey, which is more conservative in 
+introducing new features than Firefox, will effectively have a long-term 
+release.
+Thunderbird is generally more conservative than Seamonkey, on the email 
+side.
+
+> - 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.
+
+We probably will reduce the number of updates as well.  Before this 
+frenetic pace of a new version every 6 weeks, Firefox often went 2 or 3 
+months without an update, when there had been no bugs with security 
+implications.  I expect that the ESR version would likely follow the 
+same practice.
+Even if not, in addition to less risk of regressions, no new features 
+should be easier to test.  (The same tests every time.)
+> - If we don't choose Firefox ESR, we should at least consider using 
+> ESR for xulrunner.
+>
+-- 
+
+André
+
+