On 07/28/2010 01:10 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:37 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Florent Le Coz wrote:
>>> On 28/07/2010 14:52, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>>> In my opinion including software that even upstream says is not ready is
>>>> for a distribution that's "lost their way". We can still be a leading
>>>> distribution and not include pre-release software. Especially pre-release
>>>> software that's not only in our critical path, but also something that
>>>> almost all of us use every day.
>>> I agree, but doesn't that mean that Firefox 4.0 won't be available in
>>> F14 at all and will only be in F15?
>>> I think it would be a huge drawback for Fedora 14.
>>
>> It would be huge if there people who can't live without it didn't have
>> any other way of getting it than having it pre-packaged. I think
>> Firefox 4 looks to be fantastic, but the truth is that people only
>> have to wait a few months for a release with it pre-packaged, if
>> they're not able to add it on their own.
>
> I'd rather we provide them a package than have people going out and
> installing software from third-party sources (yes, mozilla.org is hardly
> Evil, but it sets a bad precedent). I really don't see much of a reason
> we can't ship it as a post-release update. We'd probably want to do that
> in the end anyway, because Mozilla tends to stop security supporting old
> branches anyway; it's certainly plausible that they stop supporting 3.x
> during F14's support lifetime.
Just because it isn't in the F14 repo doesn't mean it won't be available to
people who really want a packaged version earlier - look at spot's chromium
packages, for example. And I really expect the F14-F15 time frame to be a very
similar situation with Firefox - just because it's released doesn't mean there
isn't some time to wait before it's really shippable. 6 months won't be the
end of the world, especially if it's added to an add-on repo someplace so
people can get it if they really want something other than ff3.
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Peter
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