Firefox moving to 4 week releases

#1

Post by rebelwebmaster » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 3:59 PM UTC

Firefox moving to 4 week releases
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Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

#2

Post by chaosmachine » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:28 PM UTC

According to my calculations, this means Firefox 100 will be released on 2022-03-08.

Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

#3

Post by lvh » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

There's an incidental benefit here. There's at least one system (I think Duo + Okta?) which, when configured to check if your browser is out of date, makes a logic error. It should check if your browser is the most recent, and, if it isn't, if the _new release_ is over N days old. Instead, it checks if your browser is the most recent, and if it isn't, if the _old release_ is over N days old. So, if you run Firefox and you get it from your Linux distribution, that breaks during the two days or so in between a new release and e.g. Fedora shipping it.

Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

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Post by discreditable » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:33 PM UTC

chaosmachine wrote: post #2

According to my calculations, this means Firefox 100 will be released on 2022-03-08.

I bet they will switch to date-based releases long before then.

Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

#5

Post by rovr138 » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

discreditable wrote: post #4

chaosmachine wrote: post #2

According to my calculations, this means Firefox 100 will be released on 2022-03-08.

I bet they will switch to date-based releases long before then.

I kind of want to see Firefox 100

Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

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Post by cozzyd » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:48 PM UTC

chaosmachine wrote: post #2

According to my calculations, this means Firefox 100 will be released on 2022-03-08.

And in 2702 we will see Firefox 9001. A long time to wait for a silly joke :(

Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

#7

Post by acqq » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

> In recent quarters, we’ve had many requests to take features to market sooner.

Surely not from the users.

> Feature teams are increasingly working in sprints that align better with shorter release cycles.

Poor guys. At least the process “guarantees” long term quality as the result.

> Shorter release cycles provide greater flexibility to support product planning and priority changes due to business or market requirements.

Translation: marketing managers want to change their minds faster than up to now.

I’d prefer more stable, less CPU and battery hungry browser than one that shovels to my desktop the newly decided features from the marketing as soon as possible. But it’s just me.

Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

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Post by mroche » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

rovr138 wrote: post #5

discreditable wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bet they will switch to date-based releases long before then.

I kind of want to see Firefox 100

Firefox C

Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

#9

Post by tasty_freeze » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

acqq wrote: post #7

> In recent quarters, we’ve had many requests to take features to market sooner. Surely not from the users. > Feature teams are increasingly working in sprints that align better with shorter release cycles. Poor guys. At least the process “guarantees” long term quality as the result. > Shorter release cycles provide greater flexibility to support product planning and priority changes due to business or market require…

Your first comment implies you speak for all users; certainly you don't.

Your second comment is antagonistically sarcastic.

Your third comment is easy cynicism. As a counterpoint, Firefox does put a lot of effort into stability, reducing CPU power (read the recent change on OSX in that regard). You seem to be suggesting a shorter release cycle will prevent them from continuing that work.

Re: Firefox moving to 4 week releases

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Post by ThoughtfulToad » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

That's a lot of releases!