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Michael Connor  
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 More options Sep 25 2008, 7:37 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Michael Connor <mcon...@mozilla.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:37:20 -0400
Local: Thurs, Sep 25 2008 7:37 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox2 desupport now only 3 months away
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On 24-Sep-08, at 4:16 AM, Simon Paquet wrote:

> Michael Connor wrote on 23. Sep 2008:

>>> The XULRunner community also voiced the same concern at the
>>> Mozilla Summit. There are a few deployed XULRunner apps that
>>> would benefit from security releases after December, until
>>> they get completely moved to XULRunner 1.9

>> Is this an issue related to communication?  Or are we just
>> hitting "six months isn't enough time for platform consumers"
>> here?  We can at least piggyback on Thunderbird-required work,
>> but we should really consider a different plan for dropping
>> support for platform versions than for Firefox.

>> (That should not be interpreted as "MoCo will continue to maintain
>> XULRunner beyond the corresponding Firefox end of life date" as MoCo
>> is a product-focused organization, not a platform provider.

> Well, personally I think that MoCo has an obligation to provide longer
> platform support for its former product Thunderbird, given that MoCo
> was primarily responsible for the complete lack of further development
> of Thunderbird for about a year, which was only fixed recently with
> the formation of Mozilla Messaging.

Mozilla (in some form) will provide support for Thunderbird based on  
the official lifecycle policy, like we did for 1.0 and 1.5.

> I'm not advocating that the lifecycle of the 1.8 branch is prolonged
> until TB3 has been out for six months, but ending its lifecycle in
> December, when TB3 will probably be released only 1-2 months later
> sounds like a pretty bad decision for me from a general mozilla.org
> point of view to me.

You are asserting things that aren't based on what I said.  
Thunderbird has the same product lifecycle policy as Firefox (six  
months after next release).  However, we have generally focused on  
issues that actually affect Thunderbird when backporting platform  
fixes, which is a smaller set than issues that affect Firefox, or some  
other platform consumers.  "Because we're supporting Thunderbird" is  
not a reason to continue to support the whole platform for all  
consumers.

> That can easily kill a lot of goodwill in the market for Thunderbird.
> Given that TB is supposed to generate revenues in the future, I really
> wouldn't recommend to walk this route.

I'm glad we're in agreement here.

-- Mike


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