Ken Gunderson wrote:
> 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 intent was to ship with the final release of Firefox 3.1, but as 3.1
morphed into 3.5 at Mozilla the build schedule slipped, and we were stuck
with a beta. To avoid repeating this, 2010.03 went with 3.5.x instead
of trying to track 3.6 betas, and I'm sure we'll get complaints that 3.6
is already out but not included.
Unfortunately, there is an actual cost to being on older Firefox releases,
since Mozilla stops producing security patches for old releases after new
releases have been out for a while (6-12 months I think), so if we choose
too old a release, we may stop getting security patches during the lifetime
of the OpenSolaris release.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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