On 10/11/2017 10:58 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
I don't get the whole kerfuffle about FF57 being beta: F27 is in beta
now too, and it's the time to test what will be in the relased version,
and using a pre-release of a package seems to be a better way to do
this than using some old version that will be soon replaced.
If we had a different updates policy for Firefox in Fedora, things
would be different, but we don't.
FF57 was also pushed to F26 updates-testing. F26 is not beta but a
stable release. I have updates-testing enabled on my main machine to
find unexpected package breakages and give feedback about them, which is
the whole purpose of updates-testing. If this breaks my main web browser
(which could have been expected), I'll just disable updates-testing
again. This means less testing of updates, which a lot of people
(rightfully) complain about anyway. That's why I think such an update
should not go into a stable release's updates-testing.
Actually, as a regular desktop user, I'd be surprised if I got the FF57
with a regular update without upgrading to the latest Fedora release. I
don't think FF57 should be in F26 at all.
Regards,
Till