On 16 October 2017 at 10:18, Martin Stransky <stran...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/2017 11:10 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > >> On 16 October 2017 at 10:00, Martin Stransky <stran...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> On 10/15/2017 03:58 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Alexander Ploumistos < >>>> alex.ploumis...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Now that FESCo has ruled that "firefox 57beta is removed from f25/f26 >>>>> updates-testing but stays in f27/rawhide", could we at least keep >>>>> getting new builds in koji for f25/f26? Judging by the feedback in >>>>> bodhi, the various threads here, rhbz and FESCo tickets, there is a >>>>> number of users who don't mind sticking with Firefox 57. Going back to >>>>> v56 would entail undoing a number of changes and dealing with possible >>>>> breakages, only to repeat the whole process in about a month. By the >>>>> way, beta 8 was released on Friday. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I don't see why not, but that is up to the maintainer. The issue >>>> wasn't >>>> the testing. It was the use >>>> of the updates-testing process for something that wasn't intended to be >>>> pushed to stable. >>>> >>>> >>> Sure, out of box thinking is not expected here and Vogons could take >>> lessons from our council members ;-) >>> >>> ma. >>> >>> p.s.: please no offense here. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >>> >>> >> >> Side note... saying something that "could be" offensive and relies on a >> particular sense of humor and then adding a P.S. of "no offense" is not >> generally well looked upon ... >> > > Yeah, sorry for that but I could not resist :) I smiled ... but then I have a bit of a twisted sense of humor at times I think and I try not to rely on it for what others would read into text usually ;) > > > Have you built it in a COPR instead yet? >> > > No I don't build copr builds as that means extra work here. > > If need be I don't mind tracking your commits in F27/master and maintaining >> a temporary COPR for F25/F26 users. >> > > Sure go ahead if you wish. You may need to fiddle with system nss/nspr > dependencies until nspr-4.17 and nss 3.33 hit stable. You can take the > package at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firefox/tree/stransky-fir > efox-57 > > That's fair enough ... I'll knock something up to automate the COPR build later on today. > Of course we'll need to get the message out on compatibility stuff when it >> does go to F26/F25 repos eventually ... I'd suggest a Fedora Magazine >> article highlighting the situation? We could even do one early >> highlighting >> the COPR if you'd like some early F26 FF57 testing results? >> > > > >> I'd be happy to propose the article to the Fedora Magazine editorial board >> and write it up if that's helpful. >> > > That would be great. > > > I'll get this proposed in the next few days, I expect we'll get something out there if not next week then the week after. Since I'm predominantly a Chrome rather than Firefox user I haven't been tracking Mozilla's activities closely in the past few years. Are there some nice talking points I can reference and quickly run through for this update - principally what it means to the users as that will be the most visible effect? When I have a draft together I'll send you a preview URL for review, if that's okay with you?
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