Yes, we should have communicated on this dot release once it was live. Sorry about that.
Sylvestre Le 22/02/2016 14:28, James M. Pulver a écrit : > Personally for security, tightly scoped, point releases I'm happy to just get > a notice to this list that it has been released. I agree that with specific > and limited security fixes that are exploited in the wild, getting a patch > out has to the the highest priority. Very close to that is a notice > to people that now need to deploy that patch though. > > As Major.minor Firefox ESR is released on a known schedule, I really think > that Mozilla actually is on the side of caution in pre-announcing those, > anyone who can read the chart given once a year and use a calendar doesn't > actually need "pre-release" announcements. That said, the reminders are > nice so I don't need to put things manually into my calendar to remind me. > > I *would not* hold up any release that was scheduled in the calendar or that > was a currently exploited security patch just so there's some arbitrary time > between a mailing list post and the release. > > A notice when the release is available for download is appreciated though, > and I think important for the un-planned patches. > > James Pulver > CLASSE Computer Group > Cornell University > > On 02/21/2016 11:27 AM, Mike Connor wrote: >> To answer one question, that's the only fix listed in the release notes: >> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/38.6.1/releasenotes/ >> >> To answer the other, we typically don't provide specific or advance >> notice of these unscheduled point releases, as our focus in these >> situations is on shipping the fix in the shortest possible time. These >> point releases are typically tightly scoped, and focused on rapidly >> addressing publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. I think that's the right >> focus, overall. >> >> That said, clearly there's some expectations floating around, so I'd >> like to understand more about what folks are looking for from Mozilla. >> >> -- Mike >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Enterprise mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to >> [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >> > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
