Firefox 5.0

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 21:40 +0200, Sascha wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 09:00 PM, agraham wrote:
> > On 06/21/2011 07:52 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> >> <SATIRE>
> >>
> >> Trying to get in the first "What's wrong with Fedora?  It's been 15
> >> minutes since the Mozilla announcement and Firefox 5 isn't in the repos"
> >> comment.
> >>
> >> </SATIRE>
> >>
> >
> > It's there now, sorry for the delay.
> >
> 
> Well, I would like to know, if Firefox 5 will generally come into the 
> Fedora 15 repos. I searched the devel-ML for this topic the last days, I 
> found out that Spot has a fedorapeople-Firefox5-Repo (He had a 
> Firefox4-Beta-Repo back in F14 (Or was it 13?) times, too) but nothing 
> about Fedora 15 and Firefox 5. I mean, ok, the version number looks 
> huge, but actually, this is only a minor release and all distributions 
> that ship current Firefox should notice that and therefore upgrade their 
> Firefox package.
> 
> bodhi-Output:
> 
> bodhi -L firefox
>    dist-f13-updates-testing  firefox-3.6.17-1.fc13
>            dist-f13-updates  firefox-3.6.17-1.fc13
> dist-f13-updates-candidate  firefox-3.6.18-1.fc13
>            dist-f14-updates  firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14
> dist-f14-updates-candidate  firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14
>    dist-f14-updates-testing  firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14
>            dist-f15-updates  firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15
>    dist-f15-updates-testing  firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15
> dist-f15-updates-candidate  firefox-4.0-3.fc15
> 
> 


This is an excellent question, and it will partly depend on whether
Mozilla's upstream plans for maintaining older versions. One of the
advantages to their schedule for major releases was that we could
reasonably assume that they'd be supporting a major release for the full
13-month lifecycle of a Fedora release. I can't find at a quick search
right now any statements on how long they plan to support Firefox 3.6,
4.x or 5.x.

I find it hard to believe that upstream will want to support releases on
their new schedule for thirteen months. Their current plan is to release
version 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 all within 2011. It would be a support
nightmare on their part to continue support beyond security fixes for
more than two or three releases continuously, which pretty much implies
that at some point Fedora will need to update mid-life in order to
retain support.
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