[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases

[D.Morgan]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Sander Lepik <sander.lepik at eesti.ee> wrote:
> 13.01.2012 03:20, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas:
>
>> see https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox-
>> extended-support-release/
>> see https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/9d/Esr-release-overview.png
>>
>> ESR is a 1y extended supported release...
>>
>> looking at the image we'd be having supported versions for our 9month
>> release
>> schedule every time... we should totally use this release and not go
>> towards
>> FF11 for our release.
>>
>> We've been complaining about the too quick release schedule... this is our
>> chance!
>>
>> ( i think if the FF maintainer wishes, he could also do backports of the
>> regular releases... )
>>
>> i'm hoping everyone agrees? including FF maintainer?
>
> I don't agree. But i'm not the maintainer.
>
> Why not?
> * Since fx10 all non-binary extensions are compatible by default (so our
> main problem goes away).
> * fx10 in 6 months is dead old for users POV. Many unhappy users. Lower
> popularity for Mageia. (Ubuntu AFAIK is going with fast schedule).
> * We will miss too many new and cool features.
> * When we release
>
> But as i said.. up to maintainer.

A reason can be that a new version can need new versions of external
stuffs ( like nss, nspr, sqlite3, ... )