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Message from discussion Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
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Rob Arnold  
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 More options Apr 14 2009, 2:38 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Rob Arnold <tell...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:38:01 -0400
Local: Tues, Apr 14 2009 2:38 am
Subject: Re: Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:31 AM, John J. Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com

> wrote:
> Michael Connor wrote:

>  software.  I don't believe we should make a decision based on users who
>> can't upgrade their OS because they aren't using it legally.

> Ok, I guess we disagree. I think mozilla should make decisions based on the
> needs of their users.

I don't want spend my time debugging or trying to reproduce an issue for an
operating system that isn't up to date when it could easily be. If users are
illegally using their OS and cannot upgrade due to that, I do not want to
have to bend over backwards to recreate their environment to reproduce the
bug and test a fix (in addition, there are moral issues with helping these
users). I would argue that supporting those systems doesn't help the needs
of the vast majority of users who are using their OS legally and properly
maintaining it.

We have users who use the server editions of Windows and Firefox works
mostly correctly there, but it is technically unsupported and I have had to
deal with bugs resulting from the subtle differences. The fewer platforms we
have to support, the more productive my time can be spent working on bug
that address issues for a much larger set of people.

-Rob


 
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