2026-04-24 16:49 UTC
It's still a bit odd to deploy dormant code to non-testors, isn't it? Mozilla can withhold a Nightly or Beta feature for as long as it feels like, regardless of how many versions are released as they develop it.
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@trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-25 09:43
If there's no reason to hold the feature code back (i.e. its integration doesn't break anything), then it's much easier for development to ship the feature and disable it with a feature flag. Otherwise, you have two versions of the code, which means changes need to be integrated in both versions, which is largely just pointless busywork.
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@pdxfed@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 18:35
I'm not in software development so don't have an opinion on the practice, just passing on what I read that seemed relevant.