Getting close to a 1.6 release
Chris Hofmann
http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/release-status.html
Builds from today should be considered very near to release candidates,
and we are shooting for Monday or Tuesday to have the final builds.
We can use all the help we can get over the next few days with testing,
and nominating any bugs that appear to be recent regressions or serious
problems that should stop us from releasing.
All localizations and language packs that want to make it on the CD
image should plan to be ready to go by Thursday next week.
Thanks
Chris Hofmann
KaiRo - Robert Kaiser
> All localizations and language packs that want to make it on the CD
> image should plan to be ready to go by Thursday next week.
Should be easy to do for me (German). Thanks for the info.
Robert Kaiser
Tsahi Asher
it is now wednesday noon PST and no new mozilla release is in sight. is
this schedule still in place, or do we have the weekend too?
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Chris Hofmann
Tsahi Asher wrote:
Here is an update on where we are:
Release candidates are staged at
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/experimental/mozilla1.6/
.
We should be on target to release to ftp tomorrow, and need to have
lang packs by Friday, 8:00pm UTC
Send mail to le...@mozilla.org with lang packs, or locations for him to
download from. He will be cutting a test CD image Friday afternoon
Pacific Time, and we will be hoping for some volenteer test coverage
over the weekend. Asa will wrap up testing on Monday and we will hand
off to CD manufacturing on Tuesday morning next week.
Thanks
Chris Hofmann
KaiRo - Robert Kaiser
> Send mail to le...@mozilla.org with lang packs, or locations for him to
> download from. He will be cutting a test CD image Friday afternoon
> Pacific Time, and we will be hoping for some volenteer test coverage
> over the weekend. Asa will wrap up testing on Monday and we will hand
> off to CD manufacturing on Tuesday morning next week.
OK, I've uploaded a German langauge pack that should work with recent
1.6 nightly builds and therefore also the final release.
It's been only tested on linux yet, but it should usually work well for
all platforms.
I've uploaded it to two public locations, so you can get it at
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9805220/mozilla/mozilla-1.6-lang-de-AT.xpi
ot
http://www.hirsch.sth.ac.at/mozilla/mozilla-1.6-lang-de-AT.xpi
I'm out for the weekend quite soon, so I won't be here to correct any
issues until Monday (here in Europe, so there's a bit of time left to
correct something before you're wrapping up the CDs in Pacific time zone...)
Greetings from Vienna,
Robert Kaiser
Ricardo Palomares Martinez
> We should be on target to release to ftp tomorrow, and need to have
> lang packs by Friday, 8:00pm UTC
Although we've been on schedule (at least, I hope so) :-) I really
think a bit more time (about 48 hours) between official release and
deadline for language packs should be considered.
If you think about the different timezones, the fact that most of us
are volunteers and therefore have jobs that constrain our
availability, and that, in some cases (like mine at the moment), we
need to download, using low speed connections, the full installer in
order to minimally test the XPI before announcing it, 48 hours is a
reasonable figure, not too short and not excessively long. Your
original planning (releasing Mon-Tue, accepting language packs till
Thu) seemed plenty of time to me.
>
> Send mail to leaf at mozilla.org with lang packs, or locations for him to
> download from.
Done.
Regards.
--
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leaf
> Although we've been on schedule (at least, I hope so) :-) I really
> think a bit more time (about 48 hours) between official release and
> deadline for language packs should be considered.
>
> If you think about the different timezones, the fact that most of us
> are volunteers and therefore have jobs that constrain our
> availability, and that, in some cases (like mine at the moment), we
> need to download, using low speed connections, the full installer in
> order to minimally test the XPI before announcing it, 48 hours is a
> reasonable figure, not too short and not excessively long. Your
> original planning (releasing Mon-Tue, accepting language packs till
> Thu) seemed plenty of time to me.
>
>
That was the plan. Unfortunately, other fixes came in and held up
final-bit certification. We were fairly certain there wouldn't be any
string changes after monday. In the future, we hope to totally eliminate
string changes between beta and final, giving plenty of time to post
langpacks before the Release/CD creation deadlines.
>>
>> Send mail to leaf at mozilla.org with lang packs, or locations for
>> him to download from.
>
>
>
> Done.
Much appreciated, thank you!
Martin Creutziger
> Here is an update on where we are:
>
> Release candidates are staged at
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/experimental/mozilla1.6/
> .
> We should be on target to release to ftp tomorrow, and need to have
> lang packs by Friday, 8:00pm UTC
>
> Send mail to le...@mozilla.org with lang packs, or locations for him to
> download from. He will be cutting a test CD image Friday afternoon
> Pacific Time, and we will be hoping for some volenteer test coverage
> over the weekend. Asa will wrap up testing on Monday and we will hand
> off to CD manufacturing on Tuesday morning next week.
Where is the test image located so that one can test it?
Greetings . . . Martin
leaf nunes
Sorry for the late reply; the final release images are at:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/
We're too far into the process of making the cd images to take any more
localizations, however, so any further contributions will likely just be
posted on the ftp/website.