Well, we didn't quite get it out the door today like I'd planned. We did, however, pretty much wrap up the second testing candidate and all that's left is to make Talkback not crash for Fedora Core 1 users :-) That's a Talkback problem and not a Mozilla problem but getting the updated Talkback binaries integrated with the branch builds put us too late in the day to get the release out so it looks like first thing Monday morning if all gooes well on the build front.
The good news is that for this release we should have a working Talkback client for Windows, Linux, and Mac. If we can spend the next couple of weeks tackling any crashers that are showing up as high-profile in talkback, I think we'll have a great release near the end of the month.
Posted by asa at May 14, 2004 10:17 PMAsa,
Talkback is now working in Fedora Core 1. Brain Ryner fixed that a few days ago (see bug 239366), and I'm using talkback-enabled Firefox builds on Linux right now.
-Ali
Posted by: Ali Ebrahim on May 14, 2004 11:18 PMAli, I know it's working on the trunk. We just need to get those talkback binaries integrated with branch builds. 1.7 is gonna be shipping from the 1.7 branch :-)
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on May 15, 2004 01:11 AMOops, I was under the impression that there was no distinction between trunk/branch for talkback binaries. Guess you learn something new all the time. :)
Posted by: Ali Ebrahim on May 15, 2004 03:55 PMAli, packaging talkback is an iteresting process. What needs to happen is that the branch tinderboxen which produce the branch nightly builds which will become 1.7 need to package the new and improved (working with FC1) Talkback bits instead of the old talkback bits that break Mozilla+FC1
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on May 15, 2004 04:31 PMAsa,
FWIW, FC2 release is officially out on Tuesday (availble already unofficially). It might make some sense to put talkback through some testing on that too before we release 1.7 final.
-Ali
Posted by: Ali Ebrahim on May 16, 2004 04:23 PMAli, yeah, I've actually been using FC2 tests since they've been available and Talkback's worked fine there all the way through test three. I'm hopeful that nothing broke between test 3 and final.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on May 16, 2004 07:38 PMAli, where can I get the final bits?
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on May 16, 2004 07:47 PMAsa,
How is FC2 working out for you? I did an upgrade from FC1, and a few things are acting odd. So I'm just wiping everything and reformatting and reinstalling it from scratch. :)
-Ali
Posted by: Ali Ebrahim on May 17, 2004 08:15 PMAli, it's been pretty good so far today. A bit of an odd problem with dual head but I think I've got that sorted out. Now I just want some pre-compiled versions of xmms and rhythmbox that have mp3 support and a driver for my broadcom wireless card and I'll be all set.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on May 17, 2004 09:40 PM