Our goal: ship stable and well performing 6.x.
The good news:
We have resolved 656 bugs as FIXED during the last 7 days.
Congratulations! The "software development force" is with you!!!
While we can probably fix many more bugs before we feel we are REALLY done, we owe our customers an opportunity to use the product that's better than the current 6.x versions out there (we have resolved as FIXED 5647 bugs since 1/Jan/2001). While Mozilla releases its product every 5 weeks or so, Netscape has only two opportunities to give the current release to our customers: beta and RTM. We are ahead of our beta date.
What's important?
To quote Phil's email from last week (I remove two other priorities :-) ):
"1. crash, topcrash, hang and dataloss bugs"
We need to make the product more stable before we can ship our beta. We still have 206 0.9.1 bugs open (as of 8:21pm on Friday). We need to reduce this list to the point where only stop-ship problems are on it (that's 6.x beta stop ship bugs for Netscape and 0.9.1 stop ship bugs for Mozilla). According to chofmann this list cannot be greater than 100 or so bugs. Once we have this list, we'll drive it to Zarro Boogs and that's when we'll open the trunk for more check-ins. Do you want to help open the trunk sooner? Then please help us reach Zarro Boogs soon.
Important Dates:
11:59pm 18/May/01 -- Last day for Netscape employees to check in fixes for non-stopper bugs
11:59pm 22/May/01 -- Tree freeze for Mozilla 0.9.1 (and Netscape's beta of 6.x)
I'll repeat the title of this e-mail -- please put your shipping hats on,
Marek
