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

Sun Jan 15 16:57:27 CET 2012

Am 15.01.2012 01:43, schrieb Luc Menut:
+> 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.
+This is not the case currently, we have latest stable Firefox, but Thunderbird
+3.1 series
+for mga1 as long as they're supported upstream (cf
+http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-older.html )
+and for Seamonkey we have a totally out-of-date rebranding called iceape,
+which nobody seems interested in for stable release, with many
+open security issues (cf other thread: "[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package")
+> - 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.
+>
+
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