Sure, but it's relevant to the higher level question - "how to continue to support users who are currently on XP?" It's an interesting idea, what would be the right place to discuss it? A new thread here or elsewhere?
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Kyle Huey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2013-06-26 10:37 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: > > > >> XP is a massive platform both for our current user base and for the > >> developing world where we see millions of new web users coming online > >> every month. We won't be dropping support in the near future, nor do > >> we have a set date by which we would do so. > >> > > > > I'd just like to throw in here that for a lot of the people still on XP, > > desktop Linux is at least theoretically a more suitable replacement OS > than > > more-recent Windows (because of the generally smaller hardware > > requirements). Therefore, if things get to the point where XP support is > > holding us back, I think we would be well-served to sink some effort into > > making sure that *is* a viable option for this chunk of our user base. > > (What that would consist of, I don't know. Possibly just throwing money > > at $DISTRO_OF_CHOICE.) > > > This is waaaaaay out of scope of the current discussion. > > - Kyle > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
