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July 21, 2008
comm-central move going ahead
As discussed previously on this blog, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird are moving to Mercurial soon. We've decided to ahead with this tomorrow (Tuesday); the wiki page has the step-by-step plan of what's going to happen.
Posted by dmose at 9:49 PM | Comments (0)
July 19, 2008
Thunderbird / SeaMonkey switch to comm-central coming soon (maybe as soon as Tuesday, July 22)
[This is a clone of a post I've made to mozilla.dev.planning]
We're hoping to throw the switch that moves Thunderbird and SeaMonkey to 1.9.1 and Mercurial soon. Build system patches are all set, and we've got a plan on the wiki. Thanks to KaiRo and others who have already done a ton of hard work here.
The feeling is that there's enough value in having this happen before the summit that we've got a tentative theory about trying to do the switch this coming Tuesday, July 22. We're still in discussions with various folks involved, and it's not at all clear that the stars will align well enough for this to happen this quickly. However, they might, so this is a bit of advance warning (my apologies for the short notice).
If this does work out, the Thunderbird & SeaMonkey parts of the 1.9.0 CVS trunk will close on Tuesday. Thunderbird & SeaMonkey trunk development will then move to Mercurial which will open after we've imported the code into comm-central and have things in reasonably good shape. If things go sufficiently smoothly, this could be a few hours later. If not, it might be a few days.
<http://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:HgSwitchover> has the basic plan. Since, in addition to switching revision control systems, both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey will also be simultaneously moving from 1.9.0 to 1.9.1, chances are that there will be some regressions and bumps along the way.
The hope is that on Monday morning, we'll have enough information to make the final decision about when we can pull the trigger. Details to follow.
Posted by dmose at 4:02 PM | Comments (0)
July 14, 2008
Mac Shredder dogfooding request
We think we're ready to declare a branch date for Shredder alpha 2. Unfortunately, over the weekend, our Mac Tinderbox machine that provides us with builds has gone wonky, which means that we haven't had nightly builds to use as dogfood to verify that it's in good enough shape. gozer has provided us with hand-spun bits to tide us over; once we get some folks dogfooding these enough to believe they're about right, we can declare a branch date
If you're a hardy soul who is willing to help us test, please try these bits and let us know how they work for you...
Posted by dmose at 9:56 PM | Comments (4)