Comment 21 for bug 274187

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:26:24PM -0000, StefanPotyra wrote:
> Well, the problem in regards to support here seems to be that only the
> mozilla team *can* in fact provide fixes due to trademark restrictions,
> which is not true for other packages. Or are we allowed by mozilla to
> upload unapproved fixes to stable releases?

This isnt true. The backports for gutsy were done by MOTU contributors
(e.g. jdong). The only reason taht stopped was that nobody uses gutsy
who used that. Hence the promise to provide security support until
jaunty is released.

>
> Also, I'm curious: Do you estimate it likely that the user base will
> have backports enabled? If so, I guess using backports for this would
> make more sense.
>

Well, if you estimate that they have, then you can also guess that
users will upgrade to jaunty on first breath. we can extend the
support promise throughout half of jaunty, so people have some time to
upgrade. But I am almost certain that all that seriously use 3.1 beta
now, will go for jaunty at one point or the other.

 - Alexander