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Very curious how the decision to use the Studies program happened. Why not just roll the version early and include the fix in the new version - isn't Firefox an
by akersten 7y ago
Very curious how the decision to use the Studies program happened. Why not just roll the version early and include the fix in the new version - isn't Firefox an evergreen browser now? Maybe there is extra bureaucracy to roll a new version, or the hotfixers didn't have permission to do it. Either of which I can understand, being that they made the fix late on a Friday night - so huge kudos to those who worked hard to get this fix started. Seems like a good case study for lessons learned here, I'm eagerly anticipating the postmortem and follow-ups.
- mccr8 7y agoDoing a full release takes a lot longer, so they presumably decided to use a faster method where possible. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/03/shipping-a-security-update-of-firefox-in-less-than-a-day/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/03/shipping-a-security-update...