Luc Menut a écrit :
Le 13/01/2012 02:22, D.Morgan a écrit :
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Maarten Vanraes<[email protected]> wrote:
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?
seems we should stuck to FF 10 as default release for mageia2.
I don't have strong opinion about this choice.
some various points that we should take into account:
- I didn't find recent official announcement about ESR for other
mozilla applications (Thunderbird, Seamonkey/Iceape, ...); I think
that we should have consistent versions, at least for Firefox and
Thunderbird.
I'm almost certain that Seamonkey, which is more conservative in
introducing new features than Firefox, will effectively have a long-term
release.
Thunderbird is generally more conservative than Seamonkey, on the email
side.
- mozilla updates without security fixes are uncommon, so we will not
reduce the number of update with ESR; the update will only have less
changes, so less risk of regressions.
We probably will reduce the number of updates as well. Before this
frenetic pace of a new version every 6 weeks, Firefox often went 2 or 3
months without an update, when there had been no bugs with security
implications. I expect that the ESR version would likely follow the
same practice.
Even if not, in addition to less risk of regressions, no new features
should be easier to test. (The same tests every time.)
- If we don't choose Firefox ESR, we should at least consider using
ESR for xulrunner.
--
André
