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0 pointscallahad11y ago0 comments

The release process might help explain it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease or, if you're familiar with Chrome's stable / beta / dev / canary channels, it's largely the same model.

As far as fundamental web platform features are concerned, the Developer Edition is a normal pre-Beta channel. It's primarily that more willing to promote new tooling up from Nightly into the DevEdition or to set different default preferences, for instance.

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acqq11y ago

I see, the "new rules" are easiest to summarize as one more "let's do it like Chrome" step.

Yoric11y ago

No, that's not the "new rules", that's the "rules that have been in place forever, but if you are familiar with Chrome, these are the same." The new rules is that Developer Edition takes place of Aurora in that scheme.

acqq11y ago

Your "in place forever" conflicts with the comment to which I have asked for an explanation what the new rules are:

callahad:

"5. We have a new channel, which new rules." (sic)

Note that the Developer Edition is definitely new (1), and callahad also explains in his reply where it is positioned:

"As far as fundamental web platform features are concerned, the Developer Edition is a normal pre-Beta channel. It's primarily that more willing to promote new tooling up from Nightly into the DevEdition or to set different default preferences, for instance."

1) https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/mozilla-introduces-the-fir...

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mbrubeck11y ago

These aren't new rules; this has been the Firefox release process since Firefox 5 was released (3.5 years ago).

JohnBooty11y ago

Good software projects aren't afraid to borrow features and practices that are working elsewhere.

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0 pointscallahad11y ago0 comments

The release process might help explain it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease or, if you're familiar with Chrome's stable / beta / dev / canary channels, it's largely the same model.

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acqq11y ago

I see, the "new rules" are easiest to summarize as one more "let's do it like Chrome" step.

Yoric11y ago

acqq11y ago

Your "in place forever" conflicts with the comment to which I have asked for an explanation what the new rules are:

callahad:

"5. We have a new channel, which new rules." (sic)

Note that the Developer Edition is definitely new (1), and callahad also explains in his reply where it is positioned:

1) https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/mozilla-introduces-the-fir...

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mbrubeck11y ago

These aren't new rules; this has been the Firefox release process since Firefox 5 was released (3.5 years ago).

JohnBooty11y ago

Good software projects aren't afraid to borrow features and practices that are working elsewhere.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse