On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Sander Lepik <[email protected]> wrote: > 13.01.2012 03:20, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas: > >> see https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox- >> extended-support-release/ >> see https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/9d/Esr-release-overview.png >> >> ESR is a 1y extended supported release... >> >> looking at the image we'd be having supported versions for our 9month >> release >> schedule every time... we should totally use this release and not go >> towards >> FF11 for our release. >> >> We've been complaining about the too quick release schedule... this is our >> chance! >> >> ( i think if the FF maintainer wishes, he could also do backports of the >> regular releases... ) >> >> i'm hoping everyone agrees? including FF maintainer? > > I don't agree. But i'm not the maintainer. > > Why not? > * Since fx10 all non-binary extensions are compatible by default (so our > main problem goes away). > * fx10 in 6 months is dead old for users POV. Many unhappy users. Lower > popularity for Mageia. (Ubuntu AFAIK is going with fast schedule). > * We will miss too many new and cool features. > * When we release > > But as i said.. up to maintainer.
A reason can be that a new version can need new versions of external stuffs ( like nss, nspr, sqlite3, ... )
