I believe that Nicholas' remark makes sense. Also, regardless of the final decision, we need to at least communicate some clear plans to the community. Explain why we had win64 nightlies until now, why we have turned them off, and whether/when they will return.
Cheers, David On 11/25/12 11:21 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Benjamin Smedberg > <benja...@smedbergs.us> wrote: >> >> Thank you to everyone who participated in this thread. Given the existing >> information, I have decided to proceed with disabling windows 64-bit nightly >> and hourly builds. > > It's clear now that this decision has angered off many of our Nightly > users -- dozens have responded unhappily, and for every one that has > written there are probably many more that haven't. (A rule of thumb > from politics is that for every voter that writes a letter, there are > 100 more that think the same thing; YMMV.) > > These people are some of our most important users, because (a) they > provide early testing and feedback, and (b) they are likely to be > overly influential users, i.e. the kind that recommend to their > friends and familiy which browser they should use. > > I understand the concerns about developer efforts. Can we please > re-enable these builds, stash them somewhere obscure so that no-one > will ever unintentionally stumble across them, and slap a giant > warning on them saying "no support, no promises, no nothing, use at > your own risk"? > > That would consume negligible developer resources, but would give us a > chance to regain the goodwill that we're currently pissing away. > > Nick > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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