Adam, can you please use the other thread. This discussion has gotten way off topic. The other thread I opened is Fx 57 Release Issues.
Thanks! On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org > wrote: > On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 12:29 +0100, Peter Oliver wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > it sounds like downgrading from 56 to 52 > > > (the most recent ESR), aside from the epoch bump it'd require on our > > > side, is not straightforward (it seems there were profile changes > > > between 56 and 52). > > > > Ouch. > > > > Is now a good time to think about how we could try to avoid getting into > a similar situation again in the future? > > > > I see that Firefox ESR releases are supported for one year plus twelve > weeks (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/). For > Fedora 27, would it be safer to include Firefox 57 and 58, but then stick > with Firefox 59 ESR from March onwards? > > We've chosen not to ship ESR in the past, AIUI, because we think our > target audiences generally prefer to get the main Firefox release > stream, they don't want the ESR stream. We could change that decision, > of course. I don't personally think a one-off ouch-y event like this > would entirely justify such a change, but it'd be interesting to know > if the Quantum stuff means a series of such ouch-y events might > potentially be coming to the main release stream. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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