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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 July 19, 2008 4:02 PM