REMINDER: TB3 b2 string freeze in four days
Simon Paquet
just as a heads up for everyone involved. We're getting nearer to
our two proposed string freeze dates. The first date, the so-called
"slushy string freeze" will be on Tuesday, February 10 23:59 pacific
time. We hope to have all blocker bugs with string impact[1] done by
this date. I've talked with the Thunderbird developers about this
and they have told me that they will make an effort to get all of
those bugs done by next Tuesday.
There's a second line of defense as well, that being our firm string
freeze on Tuesday, February 17 23:59 pacific time. All of the bugs
with l10n impact that aren't fixed by then and any potential late-l10n
bugs will have to be fixed by that date to make the release.
From that point on, localizers will have two full days until Thursday,
February 19 23:59 pacific time to get their localization in shape and
opt-in for the beta2 release. After that date, we will start with
testing our candidate builds and hopefully release Thunderbird 3
beta2 on Tuesday, February 24[2].
We know that this is a tight schedule, so we believe it would be a
sensible approach for all localizers to start working on the remaining
missings strings after the "slushy string freeze" and not to wait with
all the remaining until the firm freeze.
Let me know what your thoughts are on this.
Hopefully I'll see some of you at FOSDEM
Simon
[1] http://tinyurl.com/djclmt
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Thunderbird_3.0b2
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