Sounds great to me! -Brandon
On Jun 22, 9:57 am, Jono DiCarlo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
