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=== Roundtable === | === Roundtable === | ||
* when will we do next major update offer? | |||
** joduinn needs to know for scheduling and Firefox 2 EOL planning | |||
** beltzner wants to make sure we respect the decision of people who said "Never" and only ask those people again when we're sure that the context to upgrade has changed (compatibility updates, Firefox 2 EOL, etc) | |||
** ss and dveditz believe that moving people to the newer version is virtuous because Firefox 3 is a better & more secure product, and it allows us to EOL with confidence | |||
** dveditz observes that we only did two offers from 1.5 -> 2 because of the lateness of getting the major update code in the 1.5 line | |||
** ss observes that major updates usually convert > 50% of people on the older version | |||
** joduinn observes that because of the major update mechanism, the recent minor update to 2.0.0.17 effectively neutered the existing major update offer: | |||
*** users on < 2.0.0.17 will immediately get minor updates to that version and not see the major update offer | |||
*** no major update offer exists on the 2.0.0.17 update channel | |||
*** no way to offer major update only to people who didn't say "Never" (this turns out to be untrue, see options below) | |||
** question becomes: how frequently can we offer the updates such that we're respecting the user's choice | |||
*** never: full respect to user's choice at the cost of leaving more users with a legacy browser | |||
*** only at EOL: primary respect to user's choice at the cost of only getting one chance to move people off before EOL | |||
*** <1 time before EOL: less respect to user's choice in order to get more users onto Firefox 3 and off what will become the legacy browser | |||
** other options: | |||
*** put a Major Update offer on the 2.0.0.17 channel and throttle it to 100% such that only users who "Check for update..." see the upgrade offer again | |||
*** put a Major Update offer on the 2.0.0.17 channel with a target update version of 3.0.1 but actually point it to the MARs for 3.0.3; this way users who said "never" to 3.0.1 won't see the offer, but users who have yet to see that first offer will still be asked to upgrade to Firefox 3, and users who "Check for Updates" will also be given the full upgrade | |||