Gavin Long wrote:
>> gerbil wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Mikhail Khlopotov wrote:
>>>
>>> It's all been in the roadmap. Trunk milestones are always
>>
> released, the
>
>>> Branch-based milestone doesn't take away any of the Trunk's glory
>>
> or
>
>>> importance. Milestone Mozilla 0.9 is scheduled sometime in the
>>
> first
>
>>> quarter of next year, while Milestone 0.8 scheduled for this or
>>
> next
>
>>> month I think.
>>
>> Roadmap only states that Mozilla 0.9 is planned somewhere in the 1-s
>
> quarter
>
>> of 2001, and it has nothing about 0.8. It has M18, mozilla0.6 and
>> mozilla 0.9.
>
>
> Ok, I'm only an outside observer, and could be talking complete
> rubbish, but here goes : (if nothing else, I'll trigger someone more
> knowledgable to post the correct info :-D)
>
> M18 was the last milestone release from the Mozilla Trunk.
>
> Moz 0.6 is a release corresponding to Netscape 6.0
> I assume that the source excludes some proprietary NS/AOL code, but
> can broadly be regarded as the source of most of Netscape 6.0
>
> Moz 0.9 _was_ intended to be the next major release from the Mozilla
> Trunk, as a stepping stone to Moz 1.0.
>
> HOWEVER, many people pointed out that much progress has been made on
> the trunk since M18 and, since Moz 0.9 is still months away, it would
> be worth doing another release before then.
>
> This "other" release is Moz 0.8, which I believe is due sometime in
> the next few weeks.
Yes, for the most part. Another reason I had factored in was wanting to
get something from the trunk into the /release directory so that folks
who only test and report bugs against Milestone builds will have
something reasonably contemporary.
-Asa
>
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