The six month to year comment was made before anyone suggested a hard
date for first appearance of Moz .6.
jesus X wrote:
>
> "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
> > Close to 6 month to a year old?
>
> I don't know what this means, but I Agree. November to May is 7 months. It's a
> little early to round it up to a year.
>
> > They should be implementing the same code checking daily (or on same
> > time schedule) as Mozilla.
>
> The problem here is that as products get closer to RTM (any software product) in
> the corporate world, code changes become progressively more and more
> conservative. I GUARANTEE you that were NS developing this project in-house (or
> any other corporate entity) that libpr0n (nee imglib2) would NOT have made the
> cut for 1.0, nor would any of these latest drastic changes such as XPCOM etc.
> Now, since it's NOT being developed in-house (even considering Netscape's
> influence, this is not in-house, it's
> in-their-backyard-on-the-border-of-the-neighbor's-property) these changes can be
> made for the greater good of the project as a whole. Now, just as M19/0.6 loomed
> on the horizon, the project emitted a loud screeching noise not unlike that of a
> train trying to go from 60 to 0 in the shortest possible timespan, and all of us
> passengers were thrown forward and banged our heads on our keyboards. We will
> quite possibly experience deja vu all over again when that big 1.0 starts it's
> creep toward the launch pad. Corporations that produce software do not do it in
> the same way as a grass-roots organization will. Their goals are different, thus
> their methods are different.
>
> Not to mention the fact that NS would wind up looking like Apple with new OS-X
> patches every 3 weeks if they were to put out another N+0.1 every time Mozilla
> hit a milestone.
>
> > N6 should be using M .9 code not M .6 code
>
> Great. As soon as I finish work on my Chronotemporal Rediscombobulocator (tm)
> I'll make it my first priority to come back here (er, now, mid May 2001) grab a
> tarball of the 0.9 source, rediscombobulocate (tm) to October 2000 and give it
> to Netscape. Until then (now?) Netscape 6 will stay based on 0.6.
>
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