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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:53:42 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christopher Tipper <chris.tipper@gmail.com>
Cc:        gecko@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: www/firefox
Message-ID:  <v9ja-e51l-wny@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <CAHJc3PgWzzFOpdqVFKNxo9Z-msUYw5qeOBGkgxrrpmPyEGF-pw@mail.gmail.com>

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Christopher Tipper <chris.tipper@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Firefox relases 78.0 is not sheduled until 30-Jun
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
>     Why have there been two patches of this unreleased version in the last
> two days, particularly as pkg.freebsd.org cannot provide the releases fast
> enough?

For background see
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214070
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2015-September/005697.html

I've learnt to cope with the burnout by limiting my time in gecko@.
A lot of users want an up-to-date browser (unlike www/chromium ;),
so the process is optimized towards that goal. For example, getting users
interested to test updates before landing (e.g., during Beta phase) is
near impossible. By pushing RCs to /latest early /quarterly users get
more stable updates.

Do you have a better strategy herding the cats? There's no fish here to
make someone do the boring work.



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