Hey everyone,

As discussed at the Firefox 3 meeting today, we will be pushing back  
the freeze date for Beta 3 until January 29th.  We will have a quiet  
freeze for the rest of that week before starting builds, on the same  
timeline as we used for beta 2.  As a result, we plan on starting  
builds first thing on Monday, February 4th.  This means all  
localization changes will need to be checked into CVS by 8 AM UTC on  
February 4th to make beta 3.

We will still try to be string complete for the beta on January 22nd  
(the original freeze date) and we will be using the late-l10n keyword  
to track anything that misses this date.  This should give localizers  
almost two weeks, and two full weekends, to get caught up.  We are  
not planning on holding the release for localizations that miss the  
cutoff, so please get your changes in ASAP.

-- Mike

Just for the record, I was busier than expected last week, and will
likely not be able to meet this deadline. I don't expect a raft of
string changes between now and the end of the week, but I know that the
UX team won't be done with string reviews probably until Friday.

Sorry for the delay here. As per this email, we'll use the late-l10n
keyword and try to keep the changes minimal.

cheers,
mike