1487337 - Bump WebIDE "connecting to old, unsupported runtime" warning message to current version minus two (ie. 62 today)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Bug 1405008 originally introduced a warning in WebIDE to tell the user when connecting to an old, unsupported remote, it may break at any time.

At that time we chose to start displaying this warning when connecting to something older than current ESR version, which was 52.

It looks like we have now release ESR 60. It isn't clear if that's the new official ESR or still a candidate?

It looks like when Firefox 62 will be release 60 will get out of the "qualify" and be the new ESR:
  https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

Should we bump our threshold once 62 is released?

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

That's my understanding as well, we can bump this when 62 hits release (so 5th of september)

Comment 2

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Updating the title to follow discussion from the RFC:
https://github.com/devtools-html/rfcs/issues/51

We would now open such bug and bump the value on the beginning of each new nightly cycle.

Now the precise threshold may still be discussed.
"3 versions before" may mean two different releases:
* 64-3 = 61
* or whatever is the current release version = 62

Supporting Version-3 helps debugging phones that do not immediately update Firefox...

Comment 3

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Attachment: Bug 1487337 - Bump devtools compatibility threshold up to 62 (current release version) r=jdescottes

Comment 4

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Given that I heard no-one about the precise version, I went for 62, the current release channel's version.

I don't particularly maintain my android phone and my firefox is already updated to 62,
so I'm expecting us to only test against the current release and not the previous one.
I would expect the same to happen to web developers.

Comment 5

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Comment on attachment 9010229 [details]
Bug 1487337 - Bump devtools compatibility threshold up to 62 (current release version) r=jdescottes

Julian Descottes [:jdescottes][:julian] has approved the revision.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/8842e929c30f
Bump devtools compatibility threshold up to 62 (current release version) r=jdescottes

Comment 7

[Andreea Pavel [:apavel]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8842e929c30f