In a recent thread on a developer mailing list, those involved in the effort have been pondering the possibility of shortening that cycle further, such as to five weeks or less.

"Our transition to releasing every six weeks went really well," Mozilla software engineer Josh Aas. "We're getting fixes to users much more quickly than we used to, but can we get fixes to users even faster? Moving to a five week cycle would mean a fix going into mozilla-central would get to users three weeks faster.

"That's a big deal," Aas added. "It's an upgrade in responsiveness that we can't afford to pass on if we can pull it off. I suspect the only way to know if we can do it is to try - we can always back off if it doesn't work out."

'It Might Be Better to Wait a While'

Reactions from other developers were generally negative--at least for the short term.