Re: Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?

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On 9/27/06, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/27/06, Benjy Grogan <benjy.grogan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > Hello all,
>
> Okay, but why isn't Firefox ever put into rawhide when it's alphas and
> betas become available?  It's as important as Gnome and Gaim and they
> seem to get some excellent testing in rawhide.  As it is now FC7 will

As far as I know its Caillon who does
Mozilla/Seamonkey/FIrefox/Thunderbird/BobsYourUncle for RHEL-2.1,
RHEL-3, RHEL-4, FCL-5, soon to be FCL-6 and FCL-devel. It might be 1-2
other people.. but that is not a lot of people to throw at a code base
close to the kernel in size.

True.

It could also be that the two world views of always use the latest
version that the Mozilla Foundation is promoting doesnt match up well
with the "What stable version are we keeping for 5 years?"

That's more the thinking for RHEL.

But I get the concerns of API breakage with everything else Firefox
builds would affect in rawhide.  And just bad timing with Fedora
feature freezes and Firefox's roadmap.  And the importance of in fact
having a stable web browser despite the bleeding edge bent of Fedora.
And the woolly mammoth that the codebase is.

And C. Aillon does do an excellent job with Firefox.  1.0.7 came out
simultaneously with Mozilla's release a few weeks ago.  Impressive
considering all the patches that Fedora fine tunes Firefox with.

Anyways, that edge is getting bloody enough as it is.  FC6 should be
pretty astounding.  Looking forward to it.

Benjy


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