On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:15 +0000, Ghee Teo wrote: > Ken Gunderson wrote > > But hey, let's take an optimistic stance and assume Oracle doesn't let > > OpenSolaris die on the vine - if/when we actually do get another release > > I would ask that it be coordinated with Gnome release and NOT ship with > > beta version of Firefox - whoever was responsible for that in 2009.06 > > ought to keel hauled on Ellison's yacht. > > > Firefox is not part of GNOME release. Firefox has its own released > cycles. GNOME's browser is called epiphany. Though almost all GNOME > based distro shipped Firefox as the primary browser for obvious reason.
As I am well aware. That doesn't change my opinion that releases should be timed so as to coincide with Gnome releases and NOT ship with beta versions of Firefox, or anything else for that matter. > The choice of beta version of Firefox in 2009.06 is more of a balance > between the latest and greatest versus stability. OpenSolaris releases > have been geared towards early adopters for the first few releases, so > there were lots of requests for latest version of software. In fact, > there have been some requests in the mailing list to have Firefox 3.6 to > be included in 2010.03. By whom, Firefox developers/fanboys? I don't know of anyone in their right mind who ships unstable beta on releases. Those that do need to have their head's examined. Developers who want bleeding edge can always roll their own and have the requisite skills to do so. Mere mortal users want things to JFW out of the box. Moreover, including an unstable browser that crashes with some frequency spills over to create a bad taste about OpenSolaris overall. My $0.02 -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
