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On 9/16/2011 8:23 PM, Josh Aas wrote:
> Our transition to releasing every six weeks went really well. We're
> getting fixes to users much more quickly than we used to, but can we
> get fixes to users even faster? Moving to a five week cycle would
> mean a fix going into mozilla-central would get to users three weeks
> faster. That's a big deal. It's an upgrade in responsiveness that we
> can't afford to pass on if we can pull it off. I suspect the only way
> to know if we can do it is to try - we can always back off if it
> doesn't work out. I suspect the issues we'll face will be related to
> release quality and release/QA resources. Thoughts?

There is more than enough carping about the 6 week cycle being much too 
short.  It might be better to wait a while until people become convinced 
that every update isn't going to break all their extensions, and 
plugins, and themes, and change the UI beyond recognition (as FF3 to FF4 
did).