Mozilla Contemplating Five Week Release Cycle

MrSeb writes with an article in Extreme Tech about the ever quickening pace of Firefox development. Quoting the article: "Mozilla, not content with its monumental shift from four major builds in five years down to a new stable build every six weeks, is looking at outputting a new release every five weeks, or perhaps even less. Christian Legnitto, a project manager at Mozilla (and currently the 'release manager' of Firefox), announced the intention to shift to a shorter release cycle on Mozilla's planning mailing list. In response to one developer citing the success of the six-week release cycle, and asking whether it would be feasible to speed it up even further, Legnitto said: 'Yes, I absolutely think in the future we will shorten the cycle.' There are still some pains to overcome, though, such as add-on maintenance, testing, and localization — and ultimately, as browsers become more like operating systems, do we really want something as important as Firefox receiving a new major version every 5 weeks?" In other news, it looks like Firefox is losing users faster than ever despite (because of?) the new rapid release cycle.

Comments

We're Doing 5 Blades!

[DoomHamster]

Mozilla should just cut out the race to 5 blades and call nightlies full releases.

Re:the bottom of this particular slipper slope

[MightyMartian]

Question: "What version of Firefox are you running?"

Answer: "I dunno, is it AM or PM?"

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Question: "I hear they're replacing the Planck length as the smallest measurement. What are they replacing it with?"

Answer: "Mozilla release cycles."