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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by chopin on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:53AM (#21003672)
Test on exotic hardware, for example. Or exotic combinations of libraries in the OS which FF depends on.
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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.
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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by chopin on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:53AM (#21003946)
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.
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