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Revision as of 09:02, 26 November 2011
, 26 November 2011→Option 1 - "Release audience guinea pigs"
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**Using users as "testers" that have not opted into testing | **Using users as "testers" that have not opted into testing | ||
*** Note this isn't a major concern as we think the final beta is done / of release quality | *** Note this isn't a major concern as we think the final beta is done / of release quality | ||
*** This is a horrible messaging proposition. If people come to us confused about why they got moved up, we say something along the lines of "we decided to make you a guinea pig without your permission". | |||
**May be mechanically difficult as far as builds go (RelEng to comment) | **May be mechanically difficult as far as builds go (RelEng to comment) | ||
**May be mechanical considerations (crashes get grouped in a beta product, different crash ids in crash-stats are treated differently, increases QA's test matrix, etc) | **May be mechanical considerations (crashes get grouped in a beta product, different crash ids in crash-stats are treated differently, increases QA's test matrix, etc) | ||
**Users on the mozilla-beta Firefox 9 will not be eligible for the Firefox 10 patch/partial update | **Users on the mozilla-beta Firefox 9 will not be eligible for the Firefox 10 patch/partial update | ||
**Some fraction of users have almost nil 3rd party support. (We're not officially released so 3rd parties have no incentive to update their software for a week) | **Some fraction of users have almost nil 3rd party support. (We're not officially released so 3rd parties have no incentive to update their software for a week) -- Cww. | ||
== Option 2 - "Slow release ramp" == | == Option 2 - "Slow release ramp" == | ||