Hello team,

I don't recommend that you ship before us. We do take last minutes patches. 
Some of them, you won't care (example: Windows accessibility support) but
some others, you might (privacy issue or security fixes).
So, if you want us to 0-day you (and clearly, we don't want to do that to you 
;), you should really wait until we ship officially.

Cheers,
Sylvestre


Le 27/09/2017 à 00:15, anonym a écrit :
> Hi, Mozilla folks!
>
> Geb told me you might be able to answer whether Mozilla cares if a Firefox 
> downstream would release something based on Firefox ESR 52.4 earlier than you 
> (or that you might be able to forward it to the right channel within 
> Mozilla). For details and the full context, see the quoted parts below!
>
> Cheers!
>
> anonym:
>> Georg Koppen:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just to inform you about things we learned a couple of minutes ago: the
>>> Firefox release is due on Thursday. It got postponed by two days mainly
>>> to give 57 beta more publicity.
>>>
>>> We'll follow and release Tor Browser on Thursday as well.
>> Got it! It makes sense for you Tor Browser folks, since the Firefox security 
>> issues fixed in ESR 52.3 are not publicly known yet (at least in theory, but 
>> the code changes have been out for a week so they can have been 
>> reverse-engineered).
>>
>> But what about Tails? Tails 3.2, which is ready to be published right now, 
>> would fix several publicly known security issues for our users, including 
>> some potential RCEs (Thunderbird, libsoup, ...). Of course, some of these 
>> issues have been out for weeks already, so what's two more days of delay? 
>> Still, it makes me want to remember/re-evaluate *why* we always wait on 
>> Mozilla.
>>
>> What are your feelings around this? What are the arguments for/against 
>> releasing early?
>>
>> TBH this has always seemed odd to me. I remember argument for this being 
>> about us behaving like good Free Software community members by coordinating 
>> releases. I wonder if they really care, especially given our users' 
>> position. So, let's ask them!
>>
>> Tor Browser folks, would you care if we released Tails 3.2 right now, so we 
>> in effect release Tor Browser 7.0.6 way before you? What do you feel about 
>> this in general?
>>
>> As for asking Mozilla, I'm not even sure who/where to ask. Does any one have 
>> a clue?
>>
>> Cheers!


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