On 2017-11-29 at 12:58, Robert Solomon wrote: > The landing page for ESR is here: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ > > On this page it says: "Before proceeding, we strongly encourage > Firefox ESR users to sign up for the Enterprise Working Group (EWG) > mailing list. ", with a clickable subscribe link. > > Should say: "If you are a sysadmin, we strongly encourage you to sign > up for the sometimes high traffic Enterprise Working Group (EWG) > mailing list." > > Beginning and end of the story.
I'm reasonably sure that the reason why it is the way it is is that the Mozilla people expect/assume that the only people downloading or installing the ESR will be sysadmins, and possibly want to encourage that to be the case. I don't think that's been a particularly good match for reality for quite some time (I for one have been advocating that people avoid non-ESR releases since at least ESR24, if not ESR17 or earlier, simply because it means you don't have to evaluate a new version for compatibility-breaking changes every 1.5 months), but it seems as if the WebExtensions compatibility break may have pushed enough people over to the ESR to make the match worse than before. Changing the wording would probably represent a concession on the "ESR is only intended for enterprise/etc. use" front, so I'm not holding my breath that they'll actually make such a change, but it may happen. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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