Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?

[David Nielsen]

ons, 27 09 2006 kl. 18:51 -0400, skrev Benjy Grogan:
> On 9/27/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Firefox RC1 has just been released.
> > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-rc.html
> > >
> > > AFAIK, unless something comes up, FF 2.0 will be released early next month.
> > > Both rawhide and FC6 still include the older FF 1.5.07.
> > > Is there any plan to push FF 2.0 RC into rawhide, and after testing,
> > > into FC6?
> >
> >
> > There is no chance that this will happen, so it is rather pointless to
> > plan to do so.
> 
> 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
> have Firefox 2, but everyone will then be talking about including
> Firefox 3.  I've brought it up before that Firefox should be more
> thoroughly tested in rawhide but there doesn't seem to be any
> interest, which I can't understand given the importance of a web
> browser in a wired world.

It's a big package, historically prone to security issues and on top of
that half the desktop stack depends on it. Thus pulling in an alpha
build destablises the entire desktop leading to unhappy users and
developers chasing API breakage.

I would also challenge your notion that Fedora never pulls in beta
builds, I seem to recall Chris pushing such builds on us in the past
provided we could be absolutely sure the final product would hit early
enough not to conflict with our feature freeze.

I think Chris does a remarkable job keeping our Firefox package up to
date within a development cycle and updates from upstream rarely lag
behind by much even for our stable branches. 

Upstream provides builds with crash collection, if you really need the
alpha builds that badly and want to help out making it stable you could
run their build in parallel with the Fedora build maybe?

- David Nielsen