[Mozilla Enterprise] (no subject)

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, James Pearson wrote:
> I notice Mozilla have announced that the Rapid Release schedule is moving to 
> a 4 week release cycle from next year:
>
> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/moving-firefox-to-a-faster-4-week-release-cycle/
>
> Does this mean we will get ESR point releases every 4 weeks as well?
>
> Also, does this mean the ESR major release schedule will have a 3 (or 4?) 
> point release overlap between major version releases?

That link says:
   Starting Q1 2020, we plan to ship a major Firefox release every 4 weeks.
   Firefox ESR release cadence (Extended Support Release for the enterprise)
   will remain the same. In the years to come, we anticipate a major ESR
   release every 12 months with 3 months support overlap between new ESR
   and end-of-life of previous ESR. The next two major ESR releases will
   be ~June 2020 and ~June 2021.

A 3 month support overlap suggests a 3 or 4 point-release overlap to me.

June-September is probably the best time for a 3 month overlap for the
many northern-hemisphere universities that work on a September-June
academic year, but I don't know how well it will work in the southern
hemisphere or anywhere else with a calendar-year academic year.

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Kendal, UK
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