On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 09:10:36PM -0400, Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: > Hello everyone, > > tl;dr: Fennec will be following the 68 train to ESR68-based release. > > Why are we doing it? > > We want to provide users with a secure and supported legacy Firefox for > Android until Fenix has matured enough for users to migrate to it. > Therefore, starting from Gecko 68, we plan to use the ESR68 repository as a > stable base for managing Fennec engineering, testing, and release of builds > going forward. > > Will end users notice a difference? > > There will be little to no user-visible changes from this change. Users > will continue to receive new releases on the same cadence as before. > > What should developers expect? > > We specifically chose to make this decision now to take advantage of a new > ESR cycle in order to minimize the overhead such a change entails. > Backports of security fixes and other critical bugs will continue as > expected. This change allows us to continue supporting Fennec for lower > cost while we focus our development resources on GeckoView and Fenix. > > Also, in case of unforeseen issues with this plan going forward, we are not > planning to make any breaking changes to Fennec builds and tests on > mozilla-central until after the start of the Gecko 71 cycle. Tests will be > moved to Tier 2 status and run at lower frequency, however. > > How long will we support Fennec? > > While the ESR68 branch is due to be supported until late 2020, we are not > committing to tying Fennec’s support lifespan to that timeframe. The > decision for if and when to officially EOL Fennec will depend on our > readiness to replace it, which is still TBD. > > If you have any questions about this plan, don’t hesitate to reach out and > I will do my best to follow up. Also, a more detailed project plan is > available at the link below: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oRPkwP3l7QzdQYj0Wn7d_3EfTZaakocA_i_pGKlG0dI/edit?usp=sharing
Just skimmed the document, so I might have missed it, but it doesn't seem to mention it. I assume Fenned will live on the same mercurial branch as Firefox ESR68 in the mozilla-esr68 repository (presumably, default) ? Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
