---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ara Pulido <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:42 PM Subject: Call For Testing: Hardy Firefox users (or willing to install Hardy in a VM) To: [email protected]
We need Hardy users to test our latest Firefox Upgrade! *Background:* Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 are now unsupported by Mozilla. Rather than backporting security fixes to these now, we are moving to a support model where we will be introducing major new upstream versions in stable releases. The reason for this is the support periods from Mozilla are gradually becoming shorter, and it will be more and more difficult for us to maintain our current support model in the future (see [1] for information). We are going to release Firefox 3.6.4 as a minor update to the 3.6 series in Lucid. This will also be rolled out to Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic (along with xulrunner 1.9.2.4). The update for Lucid is quite trivial, but the update in Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic is not quite as simple. Before releasing these updates to the public, we need testing in Firefox, the extensions in the archive and distributions upgrades after those updates. We have published all these packages in a PPA [2] and we will track test results before moving anything to the archive. We need people running *Hardy* (Jaunty and Karmic will see a similar call for testing in the following days) in bare metal or a virtual machine. If you are willing to help, you can follow the instructions below: 1. Add the Mozilla Security PPA to your software sources You need to manually edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following lines: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa/ubuntu hardy main After saving the file, you have to run: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7EBC211F sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 2. You have to have an account in our tracking system. Go to http://mozilla.qa.ubuntu.com and click on "Log In" and "Create New Account" 3. To know what to test and how to report back, please, read our instructions in our testing wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Firefox3.6.4Upgrade Thanks! Ara. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/FirefoxNewSupportModel [2] https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- ubuntu-zh mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zh
