roadmap updates coming soon -- a second beta to be added
Asa Dotzler
heads up that we're going to be adding a second 5 week long beta before
we get to the Gecko 1.8 branch.
Also, I hope to have the diagrams for both the overall roadmap and the
Firefox 1.1 roadmap posted today or tomorrow.
--Asa
Asa Dotzler
OK, here's the "more details" part.
In order to align the Firefox 1.1 and Thunderbird 1.1 goals with the
current roadmap, we've decided to insert one additional beta before
branching for Gecko 1.8.
We're still freezing for 1.8 Beta (1) at midnight, Tuesday, February
8th. That's one week away. This 1.8 Beta (1) release will hopefully be a
fairly quick release from the trunk and then we'll open the tree for 1.8
Beta 2 work.
The Firefox team intends to release a Developer Preview Release sometime
between 1.8 Beta (1) and 1.8 Beta 2 and we cannot afford regressions
during this time. At the same time, we don't want to slow development to
a crawl and we don't think the drivers' gate is necessary if everyone
can exercise some care during this period.
During the 1.8 Beta 2 cycle, drivers won't be locking the tree and
requiring approvals for every change but we need everyone to be very
careful during this period, putting off any serious changes which aren't
critical to a solid Firefox 1.1 and Thunderbird 1.1 until we branch for
Gecko 1.8 and the trunk opens to 1.9 alpha development.
I've updated the Mozilla Roadmap diagram
<http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/branching-2005-01-25.png> to show this
additional beta cycle as "chilly but not frozen". I'll be posting a
Firefox 1.1 roadmap diagram to the Firefox 2.0 Roadmap page
<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html> later today or
tomorrow and after that, I'll be posting a (hopefully) helpful diagram
that shows the two roadmaps together.
--Asa
Asa Dotzler
You can find some nifty diagrams including the two mentioned above at my
weblog post <http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007450.html>
I'm still working on getting them into the website.
--Asa
Hasse
> In order to align the Firefox 1.1 and Thunderbird 1.1 goals with the
> current roadmap, we've decided to insert one additional beta before
> branching for Gecko 1.8.
>
> We're still freezing for 1.8 Beta (1) at midnight, Tuesday, February
> 8th. That's one week away. This 1.8 Beta (1) release will hopefully be a
> fairly quick release from the trunk and then we'll open the tree for 1.8
> Beta 2 work.
>
> The Firefox team intends to release a Developer Preview Release sometime
> between 1.8 Beta (1) and 1.8 Beta 2 and we cannot afford regressions
> during this time. At the same time, we don't want to slow development to
> a crawl and we don't think the drivers' gate is necessary if everyone
> can exercise some care during this period.
>
> During the 1.8 Beta 2 cycle, drivers won't be locking the tree and
> requiring approvals for every change but we need everyone to be very
> careful during this period, putting off any serious changes which aren't
> critical to a solid Firefox 1.1 and Thunderbird 1.1 until we branch for
> Gecko 1.8 and the trunk opens to 1.9 alpha development.
When will the L10n strings be frozen? Beta 1 or Beta 2?
--
Hasse