<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Well, DevEdition encompasses three things:<br><br></div>1) Enabling some prefs that are "special" and useful for devs.<br></div>2) Different styling of the browser and increased visibility of the devtools<br></div>3) Earlier access to upcoming CSS and JS implementations<br><br></div>#1 and #2 could be portable to Beta, but #3 can't. With that, some of #1 depends on #3.<br><br></div>Our goal of Developer Edition is two-fold:<br></div>1) We need to increase testing earlier in the pipeline, to get quicker feedback and fix bugs sooner before code gets frozen for release<br></div>2) Ability to enable some CSS and JS features for developers to use that won't start introducing webcompat bugs<br><br></div>If we shifted a large majority of the DevEdition population to Beta, we would lose both of those goals. The introduction of "DevEdition" has helped to increase pre-release testing of Firefox, whereas with "Aurora" we didn't have enough people using our first post-Nightly channel and there was too large of a gap between fixing bugs and finding regressions.<br><br></div>Hope that helps,<br></div>Jared<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Chris H-C <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chutten@mozilla.com" target="_blank">chutten@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I was chatting on #telemetry about the train model and I wondered if the Developer Edition customizations could be made available as an addon? If so, then developers could develop on the channel they'd like, but with the developer-oriented customizations we currently build into aurora.<br><br></div>Brilliant idea or terrible idea?<br><br></div><div>Personally, I like that it decouples DevEd from a particular channel. I think Nightly+DevEd and Beta+DevEd could be lovely additions to a webdev's toolbox.<br></div><div><br></div>:chutten<br></div>
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