SeaMonkey 2.0 RC2 pre-testing - help wanted!
Robert Kaiser
The next step is done and now we have SeaMonkey 2.0 RC2 builds
available, with updates being live on the betatest channel. We hope this
will be the final RC, and would be happy about another fast round of
testing them before we push the builds out to a wider range of people on
the beta channel.
All builds are available in 20 languages including US English, the
packages are available in the win32, mac, and win32 subdirectories of
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/2.0rc2-candidates/build2/
Please use the builds for any usage patterns you can think of, possibly
also doing a https://litmus.mozilla.org/run_tests.cgi?test_run_id=7
smoketest run on them. I know that Litmus run isn't perfect, but it's
the best we have right now.
Localizers, please test the builds in your locale so we know they work
well and are release-worthy.
Our current plan is to replace RC1 with RC2 on the website, etc and do
another low-profile release for this RC on Monday or Tuesday, starting
the hopefully final testing stretch for the large 2.0 release.
If testing turns out alright and no show-stoppers are found, We're
prepared to go public a week later - which roughly coincides with the
plans for Firefox 3.5.4 release, currently scheduled for October 27.
Robert Kaiser
Robert Kaiser
> The next step is done and now we have SeaMonkey 2.0 RC2 builds
> available, with updates being live on the betatest channel.
Unfortunately, we found out that recovering from a race condition while
tagging went wrong and so the Firefox process removed our tags from the
mozilla-1.9.1 tree and we built the wrong version.
Because of that, we're redoing RC2 as a build3 with the right code
revisions.
Still, testing build2 is helpful as it has the correct set of changes in
SeaMonkey code, it's just missing a security fix and a fix to GIF
transparency.
I'll re-post here when we have the files for build3 available (which
hopefully will be final for RC2 and even 2.0 proper).
Robert Kaiser
Robert Kaiser
> Robert Kaiser wrote:
>> The next step is done and now we have SeaMonkey 2.0 RC2 builds
>> available, with updates being live on the betatest channel.
>
> Unfortunately, we found out that recovering from a race condition while
> tagging went wrong and so the Firefox process removed our tags from the
> mozilla-1.9.1 tree and we built the wrong version.
>
> Because of that, we're redoing RC2 as a build3 with the right code
> revisions.
This build is now available at
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/2.0rc2-candidates/build3/
and on the betatest update channel.
Please test those builds as soon as possible, possibly running
smoketests, we'd like to push them out to public beta testing as an
official RC2 vfery soon, hopefully on Monday.
And then, let's hope they hold up well enough in testing that this
release candidate can be just converted to the real 2.0 release about a
week later! :)
Robert Kaiser