961552 - Update Thunderbird web pages to clarify that there is no 24 ESR branch and that 17.0.11 ESR updates to 24.2.0 retail

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Thunderbird, defect)

Description

[rsx11m]

There has been confusion about TB 24.x not offering an ESR branch, and also that prior 17 ESR users are updated to 24.2 per bug 947476.

https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/wrong_version_software_update_notice
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2793857

Updating the respective web pages to explain what's going on is advised.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

good point. I've seen a couple reports of confusion, and also on IRC.

I merged more getsfn topics into https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/wrong_version_software_update_notice

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

It should also be clarified if organizations can count on the usual 2-cycle overlap despite 24.x no longer being an ESR release (despite coming from the comm-/mozilla-esr24 repositories); i.e., would the next switch-over between branches occur from 24.9.x to 31.2 or just 24.7.x to 31.0?

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is largely fixed as of the last release.

If further changes are wanted, then the files can be found here:

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.org/branches/staging/thunderbird/

Patches and tweaks welcome.

Comment 4

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

I guess we can close this as obsolete.