[ANNOUNCE] Thunderbird 3 beta4 release schedule for localizers

[Simon Paquet]

Hey guys,

the Thunderbird developers have finalized the release schedule for
Thunderbird beta4. Here it is (All dates use time of 23:59 PST):

* Slushy Code Freeze date: 2009-09-07 (Monday)
* Firm String freeze date: 2009-09-09 (Wednesday)
* Firm Code Freeze date: 2009-09-11 (Friday
* l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze date: 2009-09-14 (Monday)
* Release builds start: 2009-09-15 (Tuesday)
* Estimated release date: 2009-09-22 (Tuesday)

These dates have the following goals:

* All code-related work should ideally be done by the slushy code
freeze date
* The firm code freeze date will be for fixing the remaining
blocker bugs and bugs that have release driver approval (beta4
release driver is Mark Banner, Standard8 on IRC)
* The l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 date would be the last time by which we
would accept changes in localizations

The most obvious change for localizers (compared to the previous beta
releases) is that we removed the slushy string freeze. We felt that
the slushy string freeze caused more confusion than was necessary.
As a trade-off we have added additional time between the firm string
freeze and the l10n-cutoff date, to make it easier for localizers to
get their locales in shape.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to
respond here.

Cya
Simon

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Thunderbird/Calendar Localisation (L10n) Coordinator
Thunderbird l10n blog: http://thunderbird-l10n.blogspot.com
Calendar website maintainer: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar
Calendar developer blog: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar

[Simon Paquet]

Simon Paquet wrote on 18. Aug 2009:

> the Thunderbird developers have finalized the release schedule for
> Thunderbird beta4. Here it is (All dates use time of 23:59 PST):
>
> * Slushy Code Freeze date: 2009-09-07 (Monday)
> * Firm String freeze date: 2009-09-09 (Wednesday)
> * Firm Code Freeze date: 2009-09-11 (Friday
> * l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze date: 2009-09-14 (Monday)
> * Release builds start: 2009-09-15 (Tuesday)
> * Estimated release date: 2009-09-22 (Tuesday)

For those of you interested in following the development of beta4 a
little bit closer:

I have added the status information "[no l10n impact]" and
"[has l10n impact]" to 61 of the 64 current beta4 blocker bugs.
Three bugs remain, where I cannot reliably make this assessment.

Here are the relevant bug queries:

Bugs with l10n impact: http://tinyurl.com/mclauk
Bugs without l10n impact: http://tinyurl.com/n7rcnn
Bugs with no l10n impact assessment: http://tinyurl.com/lbas58

Hope that helps in your efforts