That's interesting Stuart - I admit I could be way off here. I must have missed those threads because from my intermittent perusal of the groups, it always seemed evident only after the branch. I have read a lot of posts asking people to be cognisant of vendor issues at certain times and the need for stability. I do recall being more aware of 6.1 prior to the branch and less aware of 6.2 prior to the branch. This could be attributed to any number of things including lack of sleep, heatstroke, etc. take you pick.
It was the 6.2 experience that seemed similar to this - hence why I mentioned it. Cheers, Shawn Stuart Ballard wrote: >Shawn Neumann wrote: > >>This is just a stab in the dark, but.... It seems to me that whenever >>the branch is destined for a Netscape release they are more thorough and >>take longer getting the Mozilla release out the door. My hunch is that >>0.9.8 will be the base for some Netscape 6.5 or beta or someting. >> > >There has never in the past been a Netscape 6.x release (beta or final) >that wasn't well-publicized on the n.p.m.* newsgroups in advance (except >for minute-bug-fix releases like 6.2.1). That's not to say that it >*definitely* couldn't happen, but thus far there's no precedent for it. > >The conventional wisdom around here is that mozilla 1.0 will form the >basis of Netscape 6.5; so far I haven't heard any suggestions of betas >being released prior to that, which either suggests that there aren't >any planned or that they're far enough away that detailed >feature-planning for the betas hasn't started yet. Either way they >*probably* won't be based on 0.9.8 - although I could be proven wrong. > >Stuart. >
