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Subject: Re: Should the standard Mozilla release day be moved to Thursday?
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On 3/13/12 1:51 AM, B.J. Herbison wrote:
> Leaving the Mozilla release day on Tuesday will hit a Microsoft patch Tuesday twice in 2012, twice in 2013, three times in 2014. In the 61 Mozilla release days from 2012 through 2018, 16 (over 25%) hit a Microsoft patch Tuesday.
>
> Since avoiding a Microsoft patch Tuesday is a reason to delay a Firefox release, we would get better release consistency by switching away from Tuesday release dates.

There was also a previous proposal to shift the release cycle by a 
couple of weeks. IIRC, the the 6-week cadence is cyclic, and doing so 
would avoid both patch Tuesdays and the Christmas holidays.

Justin