On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Gavin Sharp <ga...@gavinsharp.com> wrote:
> This line of reasoning can be dangerous, given the presence of
> browser-specific code (e.g. if (firefox) { /* use Ci! */ }). But we're
> in "estimates of likelihood of bustage based on intuition" territory,
> which can make it difficult to have a productive debate. I imagine
> we'll get better data about the potential for bustage impact once this
> gets onto Aurora and/or Beta, but prior experience with this kind of
> thing has shown that those channels often aren't sufficient for
> detecting high-impact web compat changes, so we need to be careful...
>
Bustage detection rate isn't just a function of the user populations on
each channel; it's also a function of time. Six months of testing on beta
is better than six weeks. I don't know how much better but I'd like to!
Letting changes like this progress to beta and then stay there for several
releases might be a good idea, and if we get some experience with it we
might be able to estimate the value of different lengths of time.
Rob
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