As many of you know, the Mozilla Foundation will not be shipping Mozilla Application Suite (Mozilla 1.x) releases beyond the continuing security updates to the Mozilla 1.7 product.
The good news for suite fans is that a group of well known and capable volunteers has stepped up to keep the suite going. The Mozilla Foundation will continue to host this project, providing the obvious infrastructure like CVS, FTP, website space, Bugzilla, etc. In addition to that, the Mozilla Foundation is also contributing some of my time to help this new project team get up and running. As part of the agreement reached between this new team and the Foundation, the suite is to get a new name and version number to help prevent confusion and make it more obvious to current Mozilla 1.7.x userbase that this is a new project and should be evaluated as such.
Today, the new project team has selected its new name. You can read the announcement over at the Mozilla wiki. The Mozilla Foundation legal council has vetted this name for trademark concerns and is comfortable that it will not lead to the same kinds of problems we had with the phoenix/firebird/firefox namaing difficulties of the past.
You can also find the beginnings of the new product website at http://allizom.org.
Posted by asa at April 1, 2005 07:08 AMmmmm April 1st :)
Posted by: Ray Booysen on April 1, 2005 07:27 AMAll that R-to-L work finally paid off :-)
Posted by: jhermans on April 1, 2005 07:38 AM"Just a warning to beware if you hear unlikely or strange news about Firefox or Mozilla today; it's probably just Taily Day celebrations."
not verry clever to say this before posting the news ?
How to say it? "all dom"? :-P
Posted by: minghong on April 1, 2005 10:37 AMReally? It's a joke? Too bad, I actually liked Allizom as new name! :-D
Posted by: Markus Lindström on April 1, 2005 01:48 PMYeah, first I thought - that's kind of refreshing. Then when I realized it was just a joke, I was a little disappointed... :-)
Posted by: David Naylor on April 1, 2005 02:50 PMMy money is on it not being a joke.
April Fool's!
Please see the Mozilla Wiki for project information. Project naming information will be posted here.
Allizom.org logo
Coming soon!
:(, they say it _IS_ a joke. That's quite lame, Allizom is actually a nice name. It's fun like how anope is epona backwards, etc.
Posted by: Tom on April 1, 2005 06:12 PMI second Tom. "Allizom" is actually quite nice and funny. It may have started out as a joke, but it should stay.
PS: Where did the allizom.org domain come from?
Posted by: Adaxl on April 2, 2005 01:09 AMPhew. I'm glad it was April 1st!
Now correct this. Quickly. Quickly. ;)
Posted by: anderskorte on April 2, 2005 07:06 AM