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Justin Dolske  
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 More options Feb 5 2010, 4:52 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Justin Dolske <dol...@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:52:42 -0800
Local: Fri, Feb 5 2010 4:52 pm
Subject: Re: Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 support in Gecko 1.9.3
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On 2/4/10 9:16 PM, Josh Aas wrote:

> We
> have come to a point where we need to make a final decision and either
> restore 10.4 support or remove this (large) amount of 10.4 specific
> code.

So, this is another decision where it seems like knowing the plan/timing
for the next release might be useful...

It seems like if we were to ship a trunk release soon (Q2/3?), then
there could be a stronger argument for retaining 10.4 support. But if
the next trunk release is more of a 2011 thing, then there's less of a
reason to support 10.4.

As a historical data point, I dug up some posts from when we discussed
dropping 10.3 support for Firefox 3.0, back in May/June 2007...

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/msg/c19ecb46e27dbf91
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/msg/4bd908b72a5e0759

At the time, it was ~3.5 years since 10.3 had been released, Firefox 3.0
was expected to be ~6 months away (reality was 1 year). AUS data
indicated that 16% of Firefox users were running 10.3.

Now it's ~3.5 years since 10.4 was released, ?? months until Firefox ?.?
ships, and Josh's data indicates that 25% of our current users are on
10.4 (but that early signs are that it's much lower for 3.6).

So, offhand it seems reasonable to me, and roughly comparable to what we
did w.r.t 3.0/10.3. It would give me greater confidence to see what
happens with 3.6 uptake and .Next release schedule, but that's offset by
3.6 being a much better version for 10.4 users to be "stuck" at than 2.0
was for 10.3 users.

Justin


 
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