I think "End of Life" means the support for a particular version of the O.S. Which makes sense because Mozilla is working hard on future updates for Firefox OS.
On Mar 19, 2014, at 5:44, jezra <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have never read an announcement regarding a release of Firefox OS in > any mailing list or tech news site that I frequent. If this were > Android or iOS, you could pretty much guarantee that the entire tech > world would know when a release was happening. > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:25:18 -0300 > Adrian Custer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Yesterday was an important milestone for Firefox OS, according to: >> >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/B2G_Landing#Versions_and_Scheduling >> including: >> * my handset's operating system reaching 'End-of-life' >> * v1.3.0 reaching 'code freeze' >> * v1.4.0 reaching 'functional complete' >> although it might be that this wiki page is irrelevant. >> >> Over the last two decades, my experience in the world of free >> software has been that projects reaching important milestones put out >> announcements to the affected communities about the status of things, >> the plans, and other relevant information through which developers, >> users, document writers, the press, and the interested public can >> remain informed about the project. Similar milestones have come and >> gone since November without such announcements. >> >> Could someone in the know please explain what is going on? >> >> Thank you. >> >> ~adrian >> >> >> >> >> P.S. Answers to some of the following questions would be useful: >> >> Does Firefox OS ever actually declare a 'release'? Did any version >> hit 'release' yesterday? What is meant by the next section >> >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/B2G_Landing#Rough_Update_Graph >> when it talks about '1.2 release'? >> >> Did FfOS 1.1 reach 'end-of-life' yesterday and what does that >> actually mean? Are people buying telephones in Uruguay today >> vulnerable from here on out to all security flaws discovered in the >> OS and in the browser? Is the rumor that there will never be any >> over-the-air updates to handsets here true? >> >> Did Firefox 1.3 reach 'code-freeze' yesterday? What is the status of >> the code base at code freeze? Did the schedule slip successfully >> address the issues which caused the slip? >> >> Did Firefox OS 1.4 reach 'functional complete' yesterday? Was the >> planned functionality completely written? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
