Hey everybody, I just talked to Atul, who strongly recommends doing a preview/beta/ release candidate before the main release, so that we can have 1,000 people testing out the preview and finding bugs before we have 100,000 people downloading and using the real release. I trust Atul's judgment in this area because he has a lot of experience with making software releases. So let me revise the plan a little bit.
The plans for the actual code remain unchanged; we're still going to release the same version that we planned to release. We're just going to label it and publicize it differently. Today or tomorrow, we'll release a version called 0.5pre. We will encourage people to download and try out 0.5pre, but we won't make a major publicity push for it and we won't make it the default version on addons.mozilla.com. Then, we'll let people have a week or so to try this version out and discover bugs. Next tuesday, July 30, we'll do the official 0.5 release, including all the most important bug fixes, and that's the day we'll do a major publicity push and make 0.5 the new default version for download from addons.mozilla.com. How does that sound to everyone? --Jono On Jun 22, 12:29 am, Jono <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > 0.5 is almost ready for release. My thanks to all the people who worked > over the weekend (and I didn't even ask them to) in order to help make this > happen. > Several people from Mozilla Labs have advised me that the best time for a > release is Tuesday morning, because it will get the most attention from the > weekly tech news cycle on that day. > So let's use Monday to finish up with the last few bugs, localization, and > documentation issues that remain, and aim to launch early (by pacific time, > that is) on Tuesday morning. > Thanks! > -- (A very excited) Jono --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
