Hi Shane, Yes, I really like this idea.
I have been struggling as well in the past about that, can we drop this API, can we shut down this service will people get mad if we do? In new services we launched lately we added an Alert header to tell clients using our API's that the service is going to be shut down. [0] But I like this idea of at most 2 ESRs :+1: Regards, Rémy [0] http://docs.kinto-storage.org/en/stable/api/1.x/deprecation.html Le 14/09/2017 à 21:36, Shane Tomlinson a écrit : > Firefox 29 is the first version of Firefox desktop that used Firefox > Accounts > to sign in to Sync [1]. Firefox 29 was released on April 29, 2014. > > In the nearly 3.5 years since Firefox 29 was released, Firefox has aged by > 26 full releases. Perhaps surprisingly, FxA still officially maintains > and supports sign in to Firefox 29. I just tried to make sure I wasn't > going > to have to eat those words. It works. Yay us. > > The thing is, as FxA adds more features that are only supported on > Fx >= version N, maintaining support for these old browsers is becoming > increasingly complex, time consuming, and expensive. Our full > functional test > suite now takes an hour to run, many of the tests are for browsers > which have > been unsupported by Mozilla for some time. > > I propose we purposely lose some of the extra baggage by officially > dropping > support for Firefox <= current ESR - 1. Why current ESR - 1? Well, Mozilla > officially supports Firefox back to ESR. There are a bunch of > companies that > lag behind even that, and since we are a nice group that doesn't like > to anger > folks, we'll support 2 full ESRs. Current ESR is based on Firefox 52. The > previous ESR was based on Firefox 45. We'd officially support down to > Firefox 45. > > For users that try to sign in to FxA on these old browsers, we could > show some > nice screen that says something along the lines of "Hey, sorry to do > this to you, > but your browser is really really behind the times. For your own > safety, here's > a link the latest and greatest." > > Thoughts? > > Shane > > > [1] - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/29.0/releasenotes/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sync-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
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