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James Pearson
james-p at moving-picture.com
Thu Aug 29 15:25:50 UTC 2019
Mike Kaply wrote:
>
> Share your thoughts on ESR Release Cadence
>
> We would love your feedback in our current cadence of Firefox
> Extended Support releases.
>
> Today, an ESR life cycle spans between 9 months to a year. We would
> like to understand if a shorter life cycle, with more releases each
> year, would help meet the needs of you and your organization.
>
> We believe faster cycles will allow more flexibility to back port
> features and functionality to the ESR and will reduce occurrence of
> web app compatibility issues that arise due to the ESR being too
> outdated. While the ESR helps lower QA overhead through less frequent
> updates, would a biannual release bring more benefits to you? Please
> chime in on this feedback form<https://forms.gle/jdwWYKQ3inqP3jwL9>.
I think the current (approx) yearly major version release is about right
for us
I guess if you went to (say) a 6 monthly major version release, then you
would need to keep a 6 month overlap - with each major release supported
for a year - i.e. always have the latest and previous release supported
James Pearson
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