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User talk:Dmose/Tb Post-3.0 Scratchpad (view source)
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Could you motivate a bit more clearly (here or maybe in your upcoming 3.1-specific scratchpad) the choice of 1.9.2 as basis for Thunderbird 3.1? It appears that the end-of-life issue would be closing in quite rapidly on that branch as well. According to the [[Firefox/DeliveryMeetings/2009-11-25#Firefox|Firefox meeting minutes]], FF 3.6 release candidates are planned for early December. Consequently, the 1.9.1 end-of-life clock starts ticking and should expire in Summer 2010 already. If Firefox keeps up a 6-month release cycle, this would also be the time when 1.9.3 goes public, thus starting the 1.9.2 end-of-life clock with a target of December 2010. If Thunderbird 3.1 is made public in April based on 1.9.2, this would give it just 8 months of support for the underlying Gecko platform. In general, the rapid FF release cycles are rather scary, forcing other applications to keep up. At least their release-branch support cycles should be extended to allow applications to skip branches. --[[User:Rsx11m|Rsx11m]] 03:52, 28 November 2009 (UTC) | Could you motivate a bit more clearly (here or maybe in your upcoming 3.1-specific scratchpad) the choice of 1.9.2 as basis for Thunderbird 3.1? It appears that the end-of-life issue would be closing in quite rapidly on that branch as well. According to the [[Firefox/DeliveryMeetings/2009-11-25#Firefox|Firefox meeting minutes]], FF 3.6 release candidates are planned for early December. Consequently, the 1.9.1 end-of-life clock starts ticking and should expire in Summer 2010 already. If Firefox keeps up a 6-month release cycle, this would also be the time when 1.9.3 goes public, thus starting the 1.9.2 end-of-life clock with a target of December 2010. If Thunderbird 3.1 is made public in April based on 1.9.2, this would give it just 8 months of support for the underlying Gecko platform. In general, the rapid FF release cycles are rather scary, forcing other applications to keep up. At least their release-branch support cycles should be extended to allow applications to skip branches. --[[User:Rsx11m|Rsx11m]] 03:52, 28 November 2009 (UTC) | ||
Largely, we don't really have much choice. The only other option is 1.9.3, and that's not likely to be stable in the timeframe we want it, and it drops support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). | |||
Agreed that the higher speed of Firefox releases effects us a bunch, and that's why we're trying to make Thunderbird releases significantly faster as well. | |||