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Mozilla Announces Enterprise User Working Group

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-was-hoping-they-were-starting-work-on-lcars dept.

Lennie sends this quote from an announcement at the Mozilla blog: "Recently there has been a lot of discussion about enterprises and rapid releases. Online life is evolving faster than ever and it's imperative that Mozilla deliver improvements to the Web and to Firefox more quickly to reflect this. This has created challenges for IT departments that have to deliver lots of mission-critical applications through Firefox. Mozilla is fundamentally about people and we care about our users wherever they are. To this end, we are re-establishing a Mozilla Enterprise User Working Group as a place for enterprise developers, IT staff and Firefox developers to discuss the challenges, ideas and best practices for deploying Firefox in the enterprise."

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  1. Re:"Re-establishing" by rbrausse · · Score: 5, Informative

    in total three "meetings". and - history repeats itself - the same problems with Firefox in enterprise environments:

    * Packaging (MSI)
    * Settings Management (GPO)

    And the blog with the meeting notes is deleted. as I expected: This was a _really_ important project for Mozilla...

  2. You don't need anything particularly fancy. by Millennium · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) Throw the MCSEs a bone: give them their MSIs and GPOs. Alternatively, bless FrontMotion's MSI and GPO projects as the "official" ways to get these things for businesses that need them.

    2) From time to time (but no more frequently than once every two years), tag a release as Long-Term Support. This is exactly what it says on the tin: this release gets official support from Mozilla, including security fixes, until the next Long-Term Support release.

    3) Support for a non-LTS release is not dropped until there have been at least two major releases since then. Under the current situation, that means FF5 support would not be dropped until the release of FF7, which in turn would not be dropped until the release of FF9.

    I realize that long-term or even mid-term support is not sexy. Techies always want to live on the bleeding edge. But not every person or business is willing, or even able, to do that. They also need to be taken care of.

  3. Re:"Re-establishing" by pspmikek · · Score: 5, Informative

    The previous EWG was my effort and yes I believe it it failed because of a lack of interest by Mozilla.

    The old information is here:

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Old

    And yeah, it is sad that the blog came down with the meeting notes.

    It looks like the wayback machine caught my back though

    http://web.archive.org/web/20080608175739/http://e2pt0.blogspot.com/2007/08/firefox-ewg-meeting-2.html

    At least for some posts.