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Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Mike Beltzner <beltz...@mozilla.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:28:19 -0400
Local: Wed, Oct 29 2008 11:28 am
Subject: Re: Firefox 2 End Of Life
On 29-Oct-08, at 9:26 AM, Simon Paquet wrote:
> Please see the discussion around John O'Duinn's post "Firefox2 As with that previous discussion, right now our focus is understanding > 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 the impact on Firefox. Your points are quite valid, though, as Firefox is often tied to Gecko, and we should be careful when examining what actions we should take once Firefox 2 reaches end of life to ensure that we don't starve consumers still relying on Gecko 1.8.1. > While one could argue that SeaMonkey, Sunbird and Camino are Do we have similar targets for Seamonkey, Camino, Sunbird, > 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 InstantBird, Miro, etc? > Comments from my Chris Cooper and Mike Connor in the discussion Indeed - I should have mentioned that we'd registered the impact of > mentioned above removed my concerns at the time, but I can't find > anything in your post that addresses this. decommissioning Gecko 1.8.1 infrastructure (in terms of test machines and emphasis on security issues) on other consumers. As Coop and mconnor stated, historically we've continued to support the platform even after the product has reached end of life (see Gecko 1.8) - it's just a matter of understanding what parts of the infrastructure will no longer be needed once Firefox 2 is out of the picture. cheers, You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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