<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Rob Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcampbell@mozilla.com" target="_blank">rcampbell@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This is where I think we could use some data. Not sure what the relative number of people who want a developer version to run alongside another running instance are compared to the number of people who need to test the same profile on different versions.<br>
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How could we find out?<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This seems like a difficult data-gathering exercise (measuring demand for something that doesn't yet exist, estimating relative sizes of populations, etc.), so while I certainly welcome ideas for measurement, I think we may need to reach decisions on what to do to address this without comprehensive data.<br>
<br>I think all of the mentioned use cases[1] are valid, certainly. There are non-negligible costs to breaking the currently-addressed use cases (A and B) in favor of addressing the other (C), and the wins gained from doing so are difficult to measure, so I think we need to focus our attention on solutions that address use case C without significantly harming use cases A and B.<br>
<br>Gavin<br><br>[1] A) temporary bug fix testing, B) permanent migration to another channel, C) developer side-by-side testing</div></div>