Interviewed by CNN on 06/09/2012 07:26, Philip TAYLOR told the world: > > > Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: > >> FWIW, there will be a 2.12.1, ... > > Looking at the release history w.e.f. Seamonkey 2.1, I see that for > a total of 12 intentional releases there were nine unintentional but > necessary releases. This would seem to suggest that the current > 6-week release schedule is too rushed, and that, as a result, far > too many unintentional releases are necessitated. Are the Seamonkey > Council willing to consider reducing the frequency of intentional > releases in order to allow adequate time for pre-release testing ?
This question really should be addressed to the Firefox guys. The Seamonkey "2.x.1" releases generally are related to a Firefox "x.0.1" release. However, I strongly doubt that, say, an extra week would make much difference. Firefox (and Seamonkey) are released after twelve weeks of stabilization, and then a couple days later a bugfix release comes up. I would have to check the reports, but the timing suggests that those bugs only become evident when the number of users go from thousands of beta-users to millions of release-users. Adding one or two weeks of beta-testing won't change this -- there will be always some sort of edge case that is triggered by peculiar conditions that are too rare to show up in beta, but will crop up in final release. Keep in mind also that beta and aurora users are probably not a statistically valid sample of the universe of users. There might be situations that are rare among beta-testers and merely "uncommon" among regular users. For instance, beta-testers tend to be more interested in technology in general, and might on average have healthier machines. The numbers add up. A situation that happens to 1 of every 100,000 beta-users might go unnoticed if you have 50,000 beta users. If the situation happens every 10,000 users in a 100 million users universe... you have 10,000 occurrences, and it now gets noticed. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my ENIAC. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.12 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
