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Simon Paquet  
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 More options Oct 29 2008, 9:26 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Simon Paquet <web...@babylonsounds.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:26:23 +0100
Local: Wed, Oct 29 2008 9:26 am
Subject: Re: Firefox 2 End Of Life
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Mike Beltzner wrote on 29. Oct 2008:

> On June 17th, 2008, we shipped Firefox 3 / Gecko 1.9. As per the
> release roadmap (http://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseRoadmap) we're
> approaching the end of the six months for which Firefox 2 / Gecko
> 1.8.1 support is planned. Support in this case means continuing to
> develop the security and stability patches for those code-bases, as
> well as issuing releases of Firefox and minor updates to the
> Firefox 2 product.

> Before setting a final date for this "end of life" activity (sounds  
> drastic, doesn't it?) we wanted to get feedback on any requirements
> or issues that would prevent us from making the upcoming Firefox  
> 2.0.0.19 / Gecko 1.8.1.19 security and stability release our final  
> support release on that product/branch.

Please see the discussion around John O'Duinn's post "Firefox2
desupport now only 3 months away" back in September here in this
newsgroup.

My biggest concern is that no other major mozilla.org Gecko consumer
(Thunderbird, Sunbird, SeaMonkey, Camino) has yet released a major
release based on Mozilla 1.9 code.

While one could argue that SeaMonkey, Sunbird and Camino are
niche-products and one mustn't wait for them to update, I'm
especially concerned about Thunderbird here.

Based on the current TB3 release planning, TB3 will be released 3-4
months after the Gecko 1.8 EOL, when TB2 is still the stable release.

Comments from my Chris Cooper and Mike Connor in the discussion
mentioned above removed my concerns at the time, but I can't find
anything in your post that addresses this.

See my original concerns:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/msg/58159b24f4001abb

Mike's and Chris' answers:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/msg/77b2e27865fb4719
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/msg/76fec4b026bf9d05

Cya
Simon

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