On 3/10/2016 5:25 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
It's unfair to mention those populations by percentage of the global
Firefox population.
Why do you think this is unfair? This is about making the best use of
our limited engineering/testing/QA resources, and so what really matters
is the total impact, not just the impact relative to the mac population.
Dolske answered with more details about the numbers.
On 3/10/2016 6:38 PM, Nils Ohlmeier wrote:
Excuse my ignorance, but what means “deprecate support” exactly?
I’m only asking because of the opposing reply’s so far. I’m assuming it means
we stop testing and building/releasing for these. Would it be a possible
alternative to turn of the tests, but continue to build and release unsupported
builds?
We intend to do the following things:
* add version checking to the builds so that they refuse to run on these
versions of MacOS
* stop doing any software testing on these versions of MacOS
* stop automated testing on Mac 10.6
As soon as we stop testing, we are going to break things. We shouldn't
be willing to call things "Firefox" that we aren't proud of, which
includes real testing.
On 3/10/2016 6:49 PM, Kyle Huey wrote:
Why can't we just not ship e10s to these users? We have a number of other
populations we're not shipping to, at least for now.
We did explicitly consider this option and ultimately rejected it. It
would potentially buy us at least one more ESR cycle until next January.
After that point we want e10s to be the only configuration. It comes at
the cost of ignoring known issues already as well as a nontrivial amount
of testing. Ultimately we don't believe this is the right tradeoff. It
also prevents us making progress on other areas such non-universal builds.
--BDS
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