Frank Berke wrote: > > Mozilla 1.0 isn't far away, and I wonder for how long you (the porting > team) will continue to keep us happy with the latest > releases/milestones. The roadmap already has a 1.1 for June, a 1.2 for > the end of the year I think, but also shows that the 1.0 banch will be > continued with 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and so on. So what are your (or replace > "your" by "IBM's") plans for the future of the Mozilla on OS/2?
Warpzilla's future does not depend on IBM decisions, but rather on the OS/2 open-source developer community's willingness/time/ability to maintain the port. It's great that IBM has become an integral part of the effort; the value of their contributions cannot be overstated, and we all want them to continue. But the real key to ensuring Warpzilla's long-term survival is getting more non-IBMers building, learning and hacking away at the code. Speaking for myself, the EMX builds for PM and XFree86/OS2 will go on, at least for the main trunk and probably for the 1.0 branch as well. They should also become less sporadic because the new hardware I'm bringing online will enable me to set up a tinderbox that once a day could cycle through those builds and even a VAC++ one. The purpose would not be to churn out nightlies, but rather to catch bustage as it happens so that I don't have to spend several weeks tracking it down. Also, since 1.0 includes the promise of a stable API, releasing EMX developer packages (headers and libs) is on my list so that Mozilla components and interfaces can be used in other applications without having to build the beast. Eventually that might lead to more outside contributions, particularly since modules are smaller chunks, easier to digest. In brief, 1.0 really marks the beginning rather than end of the road, and Warpzilla's future can be as bright and longlived as we all make it. h~
