Re: Firefox 2 End Of Life

On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Mike Beltzner wrote:

> Yup, keep reading in the thread and you'll see that concern has  
> indeed been registered! As has been discussed before, it's not like  
> we're going to lock the CVS trees and walk away, and I don't think  
> all development will stop ... but the active development of Firefox  
> releases based on that platform and the milestone-based development  
> cycles would probably stop.

The triage and release team that currently works on Firefox and  
Thunderbird 2.0.0.x releases will continue to triage requests for  
Thunderbird 2.0.0.x and maintain its releases until six months after  
the release of Thunderbird 3.

Note that this will mean that browser-specific security and stability  
bugs will likely be ignored/minused. We'll only be considering bugs  
that affect Thunderbird 2.0.0.x.

That being said, I know Gecko 1.8.0 is still maintained by Linux  
distros and we could hand over most of the branch to willing and  
capable parties as we did in that case.

-Sam