Branching and the Mozilla 1.6 Release Schedule

Asa Dotzler

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Dec 18, 2003, 8:53:38 PM12/18/03

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We've just created the Mozilla 1.6 branch (MOZILLA_1_6_BRANCH) and we're
down to only a handful of 1.6 blocker bugs. It's still possible that we
could have our final builds done before Christmas, but it's getting
quite unlikely that we'll be in a position to release those builds
before Christmas. We hope to have candidate builds early next week and
to test those builds over the holidays and have our release early in
January when people return from winter vacations.

--Asa

John Dobbins

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Dec 18, 2003, 9:58:16 PM12/18/03

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Do you have a list of the blocker bugs?

John

Chris Hofmann

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Dec 18, 2003, 10:30:44 PM12/18/03

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queries for the stopper and other proposed stoppers are now posted on
http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/release-status.html if you want

chris h.

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Erik

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Dec 19, 2003, 4:14:18 AM12/19/03

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Asa Dotzler wrote:
> We've just created the Mozilla 1.6 branch (MOZILLA_1_6_BRANCH) and we're
> down to only a handful of 1.6 blocker bugs. It's still possible that we
> could have our final builds done before Christmas, but it's getting
> quite unlikely that we'll be in a position to release those builds
> before Christmas. We hope to have candidate builds early next week and

I've tried the latest 1.6 nightly builds under XP. They are nice in
general, but they don't seem as stable as the 1.5 release. I get ~1-3
crashes per day of heavy usage of the browser and mail/news. Sadly, they
are all non-repeatable crashes most likely due to thread safety, memory
overwrites, network timing, multiple tabs opening, etc. I think one
problem is that without a talkback server, it is harder for Mozilla.org to
determine how stable the nightly builds are. I realize the Talkback
servers are in the works, but it might be worth trying to release a few 1.6
builds with talkback enabled and ask the testers to bang on it hard to work
out any remaining easy topcrashers (even if it causes a release delay). I
know the 1.6 release cycle can't stretch forever, but it is something to
consider.

Erik

Joe Reasor

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Dec 19, 2003, 11:48:30 AM12/19/03

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I just want to 'second' that. I think Erik has a very good idea here.
Everyone wants 1.6 to be at least as stable (or more so) as previous
milestones. Talkback would be a very valuable tool to make this happen.

--
joe reasor
"We're losing the war on AIDS. And drugs. And poverty. And terror. But
we sure took it to those Nazis. Man, those were the days."

Paul

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Dec 20, 2003, 12:27:15 AM12/20/03

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Asa Dotzler <a...@mozilla.org> wrote in message news:<3FE25A...@mozilla.org>...

Asa,

I am using Mozilla nightly 2003121505 with MacOS X 10.3.2 (bug also
seen on 10.3.1). Too often while surfing some events in the browser
become unresponsive such as clicking on a url or posting form data.
The only way to restore the events is to relaunch Mozilla (sometimes
requiring a force-quit). I am bringing this bug to your attention
because I am not sure if this is a bug which should be fixed before
1.6 final.

I filled a bug 228801
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228801 and it is still
listed as unconfirmed.