Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Drop support for IE8/IE9 in 7.x

On Monday I would like to conclude this vote's result. So please cast your votes if there are others that want to participate. Thank you, Caty On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <valicac(a)gmail.com > > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:49 AM, vincent(a)massol.net <vincent(a)massol.net> > >> >> >> >> On 8 Jun 2015 at 15:41:15, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) (valicac(a)gmail.com >> (mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > One year ago (Mar 2014) [1] we discussed dropping support for IE8 for >> the >> > 6.x cycle. The vote did not pass. >> > >> > Since then, we started the support for IE10/IE11 (Jun 2014) [2]. >> > >> > You can see some statistics and the current browsers we support at >> > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy >> > >> > This mail is about voting the drop of support for IE8/IE9 for cycle 7.x. >> > WDYT? >> > >> > My +1 >> >> Well, IE8+9 still account for close to 30% of browser shares according to >> your link. Is it wise to drop a potential 30% user base? :) >> >> What’s the current status of IE8/9 in XWiki 7.1 for example (Do we have >> lots of opened issues for them)? >> >> WDYM by dropping support: Do we remove code specific to support IE8/9 now >> or do we just stop fixing issues raised for IE8/9 from now on and we remove >> the specific code in 8.0? >> >> > There is a high chance the skin will work on IE8, especially since the > first versions of Flamingo was tested on IE8 and we added Respond.js and > HTML5Shiv just for this case. > > Dropping support means that we will not particularly test on that version > of browser, nor prioritizing fixing issues for it. We will focus on newer > versions. We will still apply commits if contributors are interested. > > Regarding fixing issues on IE8, on several occasions I fixed issues for > IE8 in BFDs. > > Now if you consider that the user base is still great, we could leave the > issues still open (instead of closing them as 'Not supported anymore'). The > main problem is that if you look at the Dashboard listing issues marked > with IE > http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?filter=13809 > http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13102 > all open issues (except 1) are reported by active contributors, not by > community user members. And that is because we still support the browser: > still doing tests on it and providing fixes. For such an old browser is a > waste of resources IMO. > > Thanks, > Caty > > > >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> > Thanks, >> > Caty >> > >> > >> > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/es5ghym4gphlj4mz >> > [2] http://markmail.org/thread/mzvcovh2da2t4e3w >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> devs(a)xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > >