{"id":941,"date":"2011-06-28T18:08:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=941"},"modified":"2011-06-28T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T09:11:28","slug":"firefox-6-will-be-released-in-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2011\/06\/28\/firefox-6-will-be-released-in-six-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 6 will be released in <del>six<\/del> seven weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox&#8217;s new rapid release cycle has received a lot of attention since Firefox 5 was released.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t add to the discussion of its pros and cons.<\/p>\n<p>But I will note that we&#8217;re now on a 6-week release cycle.\u00a0 That means Firefox 6 should be released in early August, and Firefox 9 should be released before the end of the year.\u00a0 I point this out because an awful lot of people think we&#8217;re on a 3-month release cycle.\u00a0 I can think of two reasons for this misconception: (a) early discussion of the rapid release cycle said it would be 3 months long, if I remember correctly, and (b) the gap between Firefox 4 and Firefox 5 was 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>This 6-week cycle is something that we need to publicize well, to avoid further charges of poor communication.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to read 1000 comments saying &#8220;3 months between FF4 and FF5, 6 weeks between FF5 and FF6, is FF7 coming in 3 weeks!?!! ZOMG hasn&#8217;t Mozilla heard of Zeno&#8217;s Paradox? LOLWUT&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Mike Hommey has kindly corrected me;\u00a0 there will be 8 weeks between FF5 and FF6.\u00a0 There will then be 6 weeks between all subsequent releases.\u00a0 The 12 week gap between FF4 and FF5 and the 8-week gap between FF5 and FF6 were artifacts of the timeline used to get the rapid release process up to speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox&#8217;s new rapid release cycle has received a lot of attention since Firefox 5 was released.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t add to the discussion of its pros and cons. But I will note that we&#8217;re now on a 6-week release cycle.\u00a0 That means Firefox 6 should be released in early August, and Firefox 9 should be released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}