I'm still concerned by the fact that releases are driven by dates rather
than features and stability. I don't really think we can claim to have a
complete mozilla1.0 until it has some key features. The ones I'm burning for
are html4.01, xhtml1.0, xslt, css1, stable and fast mailnews.
The last time this dicussion was brought up it was put off because someone
(don't remember who) wasn't able to compile a list of features for
mozilla1.0 because there was too much pressure to get netscape6.0 out on the
streets. Now that it's out there is no reason not to compile such a list,
publish it in NG's and on mozilla.org to be debated by the mozilla
community.
If there is such a need to have stable releases every quarter (or whatever
timeinterval) then lets call them 0.7.x where x is increased every release
and once we think there is enough increase in functionallity lets start at
0.8.x and later 0.9.x and finally 1.0. But I sort of get the idea that it's
really Netscape that want theese quarterly realeses and not the rest of the
community, but I could be complealy wrong in this.
Ok, I'm gonna go out on really deep water here so if I'm totally wrong feel
free yell back:
I'm also concerned by the fact that right after the ns6.0 release much
rearchitecturing in many places. I'm all for rearchitecturing but are theese
things aimed for netscape7.0 or mozilla1.0? [EMAIL PROTECTED] has aimed
the mozilla1.0 release for Q2 2001, will theese things be done by then or
are we gonna be halfway through the transfer by then? Don't get me wrong
here, I love rearchiteturing stuff, it often solves tremendously more
problems then the bugs it produces, but the commuitys (includeing Netscape)
goal should now be mozilla1.0.
Hope I wasn't too provoking, if anybody feel I'm way off then flame on : )
/ Jonas Sicking
"Chris Hofmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] have started planning target dates for upcoming
> mozilla milestones. Below are the current set of dates associated
> with each of the upcoming milestones. Brendan will be sending out
> some additional detail and updates to the road map that will describe
> the effort going into each of the upcoming check points in a bit.
>
> The milestones are roughly 5 weeks apart. The goal is
> to try and make some very good software for mozilla 0.9
> that several organization might be interested in producing
> beta products around and to help us get a good view
> and wide spread use in preparation for hitting mozilla 1.0.
>
> 0.8 is half way to the 0.9 date and will give us a check point
> to determine if we are on track. If your the current owner
> of bugs that you plan on working on over the first 10 weeks
> of 2001 it would be very helpful if you assigned the corresponding
> milestone to your bugs.
>
> This will help [EMAIL PROTECTED] and other folks interested
> in the project to get a better overall sense of the progress we think
> can be made over this development period, help us to sort
> out dependencies between individual tasks, and to try and
> make sure we have folks working on the tasks that will have
> the biggest positive impact.
>
> Remember these dates: Feb. 7=0.8 , Mar. 14=0.9, and Apr. 18=0.9.1...
>
> thanks
>
> chris h.
>
> December 2000
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> January 2001
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> February 2001
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> March 2001
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> April 2001
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> 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Mozilla 0.9.1 or 1.0*
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> May 2001
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> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Mozilla 0.9.2 or 1.0*
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> * depending on level of completion
> towards mozilla 1.0
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