Thunderbird 2 Release Schedule for Localizations

[Scott MacGregor]

Hi All,

We've finally had some time to figure out the schedule for Thunderbird 2 and here's what we've come up with:

* Beta 1 Freeze on December 4th. This would include an en-US string freeze. Beta 1 would be en-US only.

* Beta 2 Freeze around January 4th. Locales which are ready will be released as part of the beta 1 release.

* Final Release date in in early 2007.

Thoughts/comments on this proposal are always welcome.

-Team Thunderbird

[Mad Maks]

Scott MacGregor wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We've finally had some time to figure out the schedule for Thunderbird 2
> and here's what we've come up with:
>
> * Beta 1 Freeze on December 4th. This would include an en-US string
> freeze. Beta 1 would be en-US only.
>
>

why en-US only, i would like to have a localized build so the community
can test also the translation (most of the users don't like te install
nightlies but do install official beta's)

greetings

MM

[Scott MacGregor]

Hi Mad Maks,

Unfortunately, our build and QA resources are highly constrained right now. We've got just enough pre-holiday cycles from them to do a non l10n beta 1 release. They are going to have time for beta 2 to release the l10n builds that are ready. I think this was the best juggling act we could do with the limited resources at hand for the release.

That doesn't mean you couldn't take the auto-generated l10n nightly builds that roughly map to beta 1 release and point your l10n testing community at them though. But there'd be no support to update them to beta 2 when it comes out.

Cheers,
-Scott