blob: 1d893ec87a1c4e9853240b3543583237efce5419 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> [Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases
</TITLE>
<LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
<LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20FireFox%20ESR%20%3C%3D%20we%20should%20totally%20go%20for%20this%0A%09wrt%09stable%20releases&In-Reply-To=%3C20120113093635.GP21938%40mars-attacks.org%3E">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<LINK REL="Previous" HREF="011320.html">
<LINK REL="Next" HREF="011329.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<H1>[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
<A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20FireFox%20ESR%20%3C%3D%20we%20should%20totally%20go%20for%20this%0A%09wrt%09stable%20releases&In-Reply-To=%3C20120113093635.GP21938%40mars-attacks.org%3E"
TITLE="[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases">boklm at mars-attacks.org
</A><BR>
<I>Fri Jan 13 10:36:36 CET 2012</I>
<P><UL>
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011320.html">[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="011329.html">[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#11324">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#11324">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#11324">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#11324">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<HR>
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Sander Lepik wrote:
><i> 13.01.2012 03:20, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas:
</I>>><i> see <A HREF="https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox-">https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox-</A>
</I>>><i> extended-support-release/
</I>>><i> see <A HREF="https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/9d/Esr-release-overview.png">https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/9d/Esr-release-overview.png</A>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> ESR is a 1y extended supported release...
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> looking at the image we'd be having supported versions for our 9month release
</I>>><i> schedule every time... we should totally use this release and not go towards
</I>>><i> FF11 for our release.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> We've been complaining about the too quick release schedule... this is our
</I>>><i> chance!
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> ( i think if the FF maintainer wishes, he could also do backports of the
</I>>><i> regular releases... )
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> i'm hoping everyone agrees? including FF maintainer?
</I>><i> I don't agree. But i'm not the maintainer.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Why not?
</I>><i> * Since fx10 all non-binary extensions are compatible by default (so our
</I>><i> main problem goes away).
</I>><i> * fx10 in 6 months is dead old for users POV. Many unhappy users. Lower
</I>><i> popularity for Mageia. (Ubuntu AFAIK is going with fast schedule).
</I>><i> * We will miss too many new and cool features.
</I>><i> * When we release
</I>
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.
</PRE>
<!--endarticle-->
<HR>
<P><UL>
<!--threads-->
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011320.html">[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="011329.html">[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#11324">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#11324">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#11324">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#11324">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>
|
