Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
Jens Hatlak wrote:
2.2 was the first release after we switched to the rapid release process,
Jens, can you say more about this switch to the rapid release process, for
the benefit of those of us who are outside the "inner circle" and are
therefore probably unaware of what this rapid release process is, and why
it was instigated (and at whose behest ?).
Basically it means that a new major stable version is released every six
weeks, and security updates will only be fixed for that new version; the
previous versions are discontinued instantly. Since the Mozilla platform
(the rendering engine Gecko etc.) is bound to the Firefox release
schedule, that decision didn't leave us with much of a choice. We had to
follow suit(e).
This was brought up by the Firefox guys, who wanted to have more and
quicker releases to bring new features (especially support for new web
technologies) to the 200+ million people that use Firefox. Previously
new major stable versions only appeared after many months, often years.
Their decision made some waves; especially corporate users are now
mostly left in the cold. Efforts were announced to work on those issues
but it's unclear what the outcome will be.
HTH
Jens
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Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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