That brings up a point, if a user is on 10.8, gets moved to ESR 45, and later moves to 10.11, will they be stuck on ESR still?
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Tyler Downer <tdow...@mozilla.com> wrote: > The other thing to note is many of those users can still update to 10.11, > and I imagine that over the next year that number will continue to go down. > This also provides a decent workaround that our support community can > recommend in documentation and the forums. > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Ryan VanderMeulen < > rvandermeu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> 25% is pretty close for 10.6-10.8 combined. However, the current proposal >> includes security patches for nearly a year still (putting them on the >> ESR45 train), so construing this as abandoning those users seems like it's >> going a bit far. >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:03:43PM -0500, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: >>> > This is notice of an intent to deprecate support within Firefox for the >>> > following old versions of MacOS: 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 >>> > >>> > The motivation for this change is that we have continued failures that >>> are >>> > specific to these old operating systems and don't have the resources on >>> > engineering teams to prioritize these bugs. Especially with the >>> deployment >>> > of e10s we're seeing intermittent and permanently failures on MacOS >>> 10.6 >>> > that we are not seeing elsewhere. We get very little testing of old >>> MacOS >>> > versions from our prerelease testers and cannot dedicate much paid >>> staff >>> > testing support to these platforms. We also have an increasingly >>> fragile set >>> > of old hardware that supports automated tests on 10.6 and do not >>> intend to >>> > replace this. >>> > >>> > This will affect approximately 1.2% of our current release population. >>> Here >>> > are the specific breakdowns by OS version: >>> > >>> > 10.6 >>> > 0.66% >>> > 10.7 >>> > 0.38% >>> > 10.8 >>> > 0.18% >>> >>> It's unfair to mention those populations by percentage of the global >>> Firefox population. What are those percentages relative to the number of >>> OSX users? ISTR 10.6 represented something like 25% of the OSX users, >>> which is a totally different story (but maybe I'm mixing things with >>> Windows XP). >>> >>> Mike >>> _______________________________________________ >>> firefox-dev mailing list >>> firefox-...@mozilla.org >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> firefox-dev mailing list >> firefox-...@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >> >> > > > -- > Tyler Downer > Project Manager, User Advocacy > -- Tyler Downer Project Manager, User Advocacy _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
