Re: [Tails-dev] What to do with Firefox 17.0.11ESR?

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Author: Alan
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To: tails-dev
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] What to do with Firefox 17.0.11ESR?
Hi,

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:50:11 +0100 intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
> a few data points to start with:
>
>   * An unscheduled bonus Firefox ESR release is in the oven at
>     Mozilla. It will be called 17.0.11ESR and the vulnerability that
>     it will fix must be quite serious (else, *they* would not bother
>     putting out a bonus release). I don't know when this release will
>     be officially out. Either today or Tuesday, I guess.

>

Hum...

> So, the question is: do we want to prepare a bonus Tails 0.21.1 and
> put it out next week? Are we in a position to do it?
>

I would like it to be possible, but seems actually quite a lot of
work...

> Assuming the packages list does not change too much, and someone
> verifies that the content of the ISO hasn't unexpected differences
> with 0.21, perhaps we could run only the Iceweasel -related parts of
> the test suite.
>
> Who can prepare and upload the ISO?
> Who can do the other release steps? (announces, APT blah, etc.)
> Who can spend how much time "running" the manual test suite?
>

I can do 1/2 day to 1 day of testing, depending on the exact date.

Cheers