On 01/08/2014 07:18, Lukas Blakk wrote: > Hello, > > When the ESR branch was initially created it was done so in a manner of > intentional impermanence, the thinking being that consumers of this channel > would eventually establish a way to switch over onto our 6 week rapid release > mainline builds. With last week’s ESR31 we are pushing the limits of the > original timeframe and it’s time to make a call on how to proceed with this > population of users with an intent of creating permanence. > > In its present state, a strong community has built up around this channel and > pacing of major version bumps. The enterprise mailing list is active but not > high-volume. There are two community contributors who took on the work of > administrating the mailing list and they provide support as well on how to > customize deployments. Since this branch/channel was created with the > intention of killing it off down the road, we do not do any external > marketing of the ESR. The user base can be generally distributed into three > buckets: large organizations with over 100K instances, 2-10K organizations, > and then ones under 1K. There are over 5500 members on the mailing list, and > in order to get details about use a query was sent to the list in order to > collect information on the value of continue providing this channel. About 80 > responses were received in 2 weeks. > > Given: > > * we have a strong, self-supporting community > * building and maintaining ESR has become a smooth process which uses very > few resources (one channel, minimal builds on checkins, single QA sign off > every 6 weeks) > * Chrome is now providing enterprise support > (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/) > * there are at least 2M users on this channel and we estimate there to be > more if we factor in Linux distributions >
You also forgot to mention that Thunderbird releases were based on ESR that's a bunch more users. Ludo _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
