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Anthony Hughes  
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 More options Feb 5 2010, 4:39 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Anthony Hughes <anthony.s.hug...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:39:09 -0800
Local: Fri, Feb 5 2010 4:39 pm
Subject: Re: Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 support in Gecko 1.9.3
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Just to be clear on this, Mozilla is officially dropping support in
1.9.3.  Mozilla will not do anything to prevent someone (or many) in the
community from creating builds which will work on 10.4 -- correct?

Historically, Mozilla (the community) has been pretty awesome about
filling the voids which Mozilla (the company) creates out of necessity.

Cheers,

Anthony Hughes (:ashughes)
Jr QA Engineer, Mozilla QAE

On 05/02/2010 12:51 PM, Phillip Jones wrote:

> Asa Dotzler wrote:
>> On 2/5/2010 8:17 AM, Phillip Jones wrote:

>>> And I am not the only one. I just happen to be the only one to voice an

>> If you had read Josh's post, you'd know that we all understand you are
>> no the only one. There are currently approximately 1.5 million people
>> using Firefox on 10.4 and we're fully aware of that.

>>> opinion. Most just take what they are given and stew in the background.
>>> Silly me I don't. So in the end my opinion doesn't count for anything.
>>> You' do what you do. Do what a lot of shareware do, use a two track
>>> method. designate one for older versions and one for newer versions.
>> Does this suggestion come with a donation for doubling of full-time
>> development resources, QA and testing, build and release infrastructure,
>> and user support for this second track that would cover a shrinking
>> minority of Firefox on Mac users?

> If I had the funds I'd sure give a donation.

> You have to remember that, with today's recession while many people are
> buying computers. There are many more such as I, that are having to use
> old equipment.

> -------------------snip-------------------

>> That being said, I suspect that any sane outcome of this discussion will
>> have to prioritize Mozilla's project resources over your personal
>> resources.

>> - A

> That's what I suspected. That no matter what opinion is given it doesn't
> make a difference. It will happen regardless of 1.5 million people needs
> (not want).

> I don't know why I tilt at windmills, it does no good. :-(


 
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