You crazy kids! Just remember that 0.5pre (the "official" preview release) will be coming out later today (it's only 7:30 am in Cali) and will replace the 0.5alpha3 that's currently linked there and have quite a few bug fixes.
On Jun 23, 9:52 am, Philipp Bandow <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe you wanna try this:https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/ > Then click the latest Beta and the you have ubiquity 0.5 ;) > Good luck > > 2009/6/23 tylerstyle <[email protected]> > > > > > Sounds awesome. So? Where is that Version? Still not Tuesday, where > > you are ;-) > > It's 12:46, where I'm sitting. > > > On Jun 22, 7:38 pm, Brandon Pung <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
