On 11/29/17 07:48 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2017-11-29 at 12:58, Robert Solomon wrote:
The landing page for ESR is here:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
On this page it says: "Before proceeding, we strongly encourage
Firefox ESR users to sign up for the Enterprise Working Group (EWG)
mailing list. ", with a clickable subscribe link.
Should say: "If you are a sysadmin, we strongly encourage you to sign
up for the sometimes high traffic Enterprise Working Group (EWG)
mailing list."
Beginning and end of the story.
I'm reasonably sure that the reason why it is the way it is is that the
Mozilla people expect/assume that the only people downloading or
installing the ESR will be sysadmins, and possibly want to encourage
that to be the case.
I don't think that's been a particularly good match for reality for
quite some time (I for one have been advocating that people avoid
non-ESR releases since at least ESR24, if not ESR17 or earlier, simply
because it means you don't have to evaluate a new version for
compatibility-breaking changes every 1.5 months), but it seems as if the
WebExtensions compatibility break may have pushed enough people over to
the ESR to make the match worse than before.
Changing the wording would probably represent a concession on the "ESR
is only intended for enterprise/etc. use" front, so I'm not holding my
breath that they'll actually make such a change, but it may happen.
There's also Win XP and Vista users who have been pushed on to 52ESR as
well as various tier 3 platforms and forks that focus on the ESR versions
Dave
ps another list configured for reply to go to the original sender
instead of the list.
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