Re: How does Firefox 2 get added?

[Dustin Ratliffe]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Joe Smith wrote:
> > Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > ...
> > > In short, there's no compelling reason to go to Firefox 2.0, and
> > > Fedora will
> > > probably skip it.
> > >
> > > Having gone ahead and installed Christopher Aillon's test packages on my
> > > devel-tree machine, this seems like a really good decision to me.
> >
> > He mentions technical reasons to avoid it, but I can't entirely follow
> > the discussion.
> >
> > Can anyone explain succinctly why my FC5 can process a dozen updates a
> > week, including kernel updates, but this one is "just too much trouble"?
>
> Fedora version of Firefox has pango related patches which enable better
> I18N support that would be need to be updated,tested and vetted through
> Mozilla for example. The decision of doing a major update like this is
> generally left to the software developer and maintainer of the package
> and obviously he doesnt believe that the current version is worth the
> effort to provide as a update in this case. Experimental versions have
> been posted to fedora-devel list. If users really want it, they can use
> that.
>
> Rahul

Can someone add that last part to:

Fedora Core 6 - Common Bugs and Known Issues
 ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common )

Perhaps, something like:

ISSUE: How to install Firefox 2.0
 ---------------------------------
 For a variety of reasons, we are not planning to update to Firefox
 2.0. We are instead focusing resources on Firefox 3.0, which will
 provide much more substantial benefits. We understand that some
 users will be willing to accept the risk of running Firefox 2.0 to
 gain compatibility with new extensions (e.g., Zotero and
 Halfnote). We have made available an experimental version of
 Firefox 2.0. However, we must stress that we believe the best
 experience for Fedora users will be to stay with Firefox 1.5 and
 wait for the  Firefox 3.0 update. The experimental development
 version is available here:

http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/fc7/

Alternatively, it might make more sense to point users to the parallel
install package submitted for review for inclusion in EXTRAS:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211807

Having FF2.0 coexist with FF1.5 would make it easier for users to
safely evaluate whether FF2.0 is ready to meet their needs (e.g., is
compatibible with their favorite extensions).

See also this bug that tracks the general issue of best recommendation
to give users wishing to install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6.:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213177

Thanks

Dustin Ratliffe

How does Firefox 2 get added?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dustin Ratliffe wrote:
> ISSUE: How to install Firefox 2.0
>
> For a variety of reasons, we are not planning to update to Firefox
> 2.0. We are instead focusing resources on Firefox 3.0, which will
> provide much more substantial benefits. We understand that some
> users will be willing to accept the risk of running Firefox 2.0 to
> gain compatibility with new extensions (e.g., Zotero and
> Halfnote). We have made available an experimental version of
> Firefox 2.0. However, we must stress that we believe the best
> experience for Fedora users will be to stay with Firefox 1.5 and
> wait for the  Firefox 3.0 update. The experimental development
> version is available here:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/fc7/
>
> Alternatively, it might make more sense to point users to the parallel
> install package submitted for review for inclusion in EXTRAS:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211807
>
> Having FF2.0 coexist with FF1.5 would make it easier for users to
> safely evaluate whether FF2.0 is ready to meet their needs (e.g., is
> compatibible with their favorite extensions).
>
> See also this bug that tracks the general issue of best recommendation
> to give users wishing to install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6.:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213177
>
> Thanks
>
> Dustin Ratliffe

Done so. Thanks.

Rahul