Magnus, after bug 1509918 is fixed, do you see any other blockers, tests in particular? https://mzl.la/2V4bUgW looks clean, but is there anything in https://mzl.la/2ZfkdFU where 64bit is in the bug comments? And how do you foresee rolling this out? Do you think we need more users testing 64bit in beta to the extent that we would do Enable-32bit-to-64bit-migration aka bug 1390850? Or... An alternative to auto-pushing users to 64bit on initial roll out, is through self-selection via manual download activity: * have https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/beta/all/ serve 64bit builds to 64bit users - https://github.com/thundernest/thunderbird-website/issues/49 * do same when version 68 ships: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/ and https://www.thunderbird.net/ (and typically manual DL is where most of the initial uptake happens, because we do not enable automatic updates for big releases until we have a better understanding of the quality in then general user population) * after some comfortable period of time, then enable some automated migration to 64bit builds I favor an slower roll out on initial support, unless there is demonstrated value in some automated roll out.
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Magnus, after bug 1509918 is fixed, do you see any other blockers, tests in particular? https://mzl.la/2V4bUgW looks clean, but is there anything in https://mzl.la/2ZfkdFU where 64bit is in the bug comments? And how do you foresee rolling this out? Do you think we need more users testing 64bit in beta to the extent that we would do Enable-32bit-to-64bit-migration aka bug 1390850? Or... An alternative to auto-pushing users to 64bit on initial roll out, is through self-selection via manual download activity: * have https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/beta/all/ serve 64bit builds to 64bit users - https://github.com/thundernest/thunderbird-website/issues/49 * do same when version 68 ships: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/ and https://www.thunderbird.net/ (and typically manual DL is where most of the initial uptake happens, because we do not enable automatic updates for big releases until we have a better understanding of the quality in the general user population, i.e. non-beta users) * after some comfortable period of time, then enable some automated migration to 64bit builds I favor an slower roll out on initial support, unless there is demonstrated value in some automated roll out.