This. Dropping the XP support is *completely* not an engineering decision. It isn’t even a community decision. It is completely, 100% MoCo driven Firefox product management decision, as long as the numbers of users are where they are.
It is good to have these conversations, about potential pros of removing the support for XP, as they will inform us in the future. In the immediate term, it will be very frustrating for people to think that any technical information they provide would be enough to push us in the direction of dropping XP support. — - Milan > On Apr 30, 2016, at 16:26 , L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > I think enough of our users are on Windows XP that decisions about > dropping Windows XP are not a purely engineering decision. (Do we > still have more Windows XP users than we have on all non-Windows > platforms combined?) Pushing those users to ESR without buy-in from > all parts of the organization will likely lead to worse engineering > problems than having to support XP (e.g., having to support 45ESR > substantially longer). > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
