Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I understand some Netscape people are work on Mozilla. But the latest
> > Netscape 6 is based on Mozilla .6 which almost a year old.
>
> Do you round 6 months to almost a year? Netscape 6 came out in November
This is May is my counting skills are correct November to May is 7
months (and the moxilla code used was .6.
> 2000.
>
> > If Netscape was interested there would be an update by .1 or .01 each
> > time mozilla came out with a new version.
>
> If you don't want bad press, you can't just dump a Mozilla build in the
> hands of the unsuspecting general public. Do you mean Netscape should be
> doing rigorous QA all the time and slowing things down in the process?
If they are doing it in Moz why not in Netscape. Announce it as
experimental builds for the end users to test.
use much the same procedure as in Moz only have end users that want to
test to do it. Make sure its announced as Experimental though
>
> Do you remember the effect the Netscape 6 bake period had on other
> Mozilla-related work? Would you want various parts of the code to be
> relatively frozen all the time and every check-in to be an excercise in
> convincing people that the check-in is big-win/no-risk?
I take risk every day. For examaple I use Moz Nightlies. I'm willing to
do so to see if I can help improve it.
Why shouldn't end users if they are willing and know the pitfalls be
allowed to beta or Alpha test.
>
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> Henri Sivonen
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> http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/
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