Hi Seth, others, On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Seth Fowler <s...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I sometimes ask users to test a try build to verify that the build fixes > their problem. This is an important tool, especially when the problem is > hard to reproduce or when the definition of “fix” is a bit nebulous (as it > sometimes is in performance-related bugs). > > However, I don’t want to run the risk of causing users to lose data when > they test these builds! That’s especially true in light of the fact that we > sometimes make backwards incompatible changes to on-disk data structures > between releases (like the recent IndexedDB changes), which could result in > users being stuck on Nightly if they experiment with a try build. > It's quite important for Firefox for Android that try builds look and behave exactly like Nightly builds. On Android, it's not really possible to move/copy/duplicate profiles, and it's rocket science to do it across products (Release, Beta, ..., Nightly, custom). So we need to preserve try builds installing over-top of Nightly builds and vice-versa. And we accept that some migrations are one-way -- nature of the testing beast, I think. So whatever we do needs to be Desktop only, or otherwise account for Fennec. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
