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This new release policy just doesn't make any sense. Speaking as a Mozilla developer - sure it does! We release every 6 weeks, and don't hold new releases for
by joedrew 15y ago
This new release policy just doesn't make any sense.
Speaking as a Mozilla developer - sure it does! We release every 6 weeks, and don't hold new releases for features. In the past, we ran into far too many cases where new feature X that wasn't ready held up a release for all the other features that were ready. Now, we'll just remove or disable that new feature and ship.
OSX and Ubuntu release like clockwork. People appreciate consistency.
Two things: 1) OS X releases at the whim of Apple, not "like clockwork." 2) Every 6 weeks is "like clockwork"! :)
- mitchty 15y agoWeeeeel, osx was on an 18 month cycle of releases up until about 10.5ish. Then they toned it down, mainly I think due to there not being much to do oswise. (COUGH, memory dedup in the vm subsystem COUGH). I think of any software an OS would benefit the most from a timed release schedule. Ref: Linux/*BSD, don't ref: Hurd.
- Adam503 15y agoHow are Mozilla developers like you going to keep my Evernote add-on working in Mozilla now? You guys will be breaking all the add-ons every 3 months, too. Mozilla developers needs to be thinking about more than what is convenient for Mozilla developers. There's a whole of eco-system of add-ons, themes, etc that other people provide that makes for Mozilla you are going to be breaking every couple of months now.
- robin_reala 15y agoIt’s 6 weeks, not 3 months. Still, addons that are hosted on addons.mozilla.org are now automatically tested. Ones that don’t touch code that changed in that release timeframe have their max version automatically increased.