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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Huw Wilkins <huw.wilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu 03 May 2012 16:42:45 EST, Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Julian Edwards
>> <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi folks
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any opinions on which browsers we want to have core
>>> support
>>> for in MAAS?
>>>
>>> There are a few JS bugs floating around at the moment which manifest
>>> differently in different browsers.
>>
>>
>>
>> I suggest we be driven by market share - aim for 95% market coverage
>> within our segments...
>> e.g. Firefox supported versions; Chrom* supported versions, latest IE
>> version, Safari current version (because Mac OS X has a silly high
>> penetration rate amongst open source sysadmins).
>
>
> I think these sound like reasonable suggestions, we'll have to make an
> (educated) guess. As we have a technical audience I think we can hope for
> the latest versions and work backwards from there as bugs come in.
>
> I would also suggest we add whichever version of Firefox is in Precise and
> maintain that for the LTS cycle.

There is no need for that - Firefox is updated in all releases of
Ubuntu, it has a permanent SRU exception, because upstream.

-Rob