Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases
by pingyong on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:51AM
(#21003436)
It can be more stable by having nightly users test it beforehand for a while and report any new bugs.
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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases
by chrisseaton on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:11AM
(#21003512)
What are those users doing that can’t be automated and run in CI?
Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases
by atroche on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:48AM
(#21004286)
It'd be pretty ambitious to have CI run against the variety of web apps that real users "test" against (including ones they're developing!)
Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases
by pingyong on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:44AM
(#21003906)
I'm guessing something the devs haven't thought of. As soon as you hit 10k+ users, chances are people are doing things you didn't expect.
Test on exotic hardware, for example. Or exotic combinations of libraries in the OS which FF depends on.
Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases
by chrisseaton on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:39AM
(#21003892)
Those should be in the CI test matrix then - we shouldn’t be relying on manual testing done specially for releases.
If even Microsoft can't catch these, why should Mozilla be able to? I am admittedly not in the CI business for frontends but I'd imagine that the combinatorics vastly outnumbers the possibilities of any organization.