Comments: We are now in the Gecko 1.9 end-game

this sounds completely contrary to the Mozilla noise that you release when ready, not due to any particular time frame.

Firefox 3's development has dragged on for a long time. All of sudden Microsoft release an ACID2 compliant beta of IE8 and Mozilla gets a wake-up call and whatdya know, blockers are no longer blockers and all of a sudden "it's time to ship something".

(From Alex: You couldn't possibly be more wrong. I've seen the same sort of cycles dating all the way back to Mozilla 1.0, when Microsoft owned the market and Firefox wasn't even in the roadmap. Also, please spare your readers the profanities.)

Posted by an0n1 m0us at April 12, 2008 5:10 AM

Well, I have to agree that previously (though not recently), the "public" policy was that it was ready when it was ready.

What I would like to see is that if something is marked 1.9-, then it should immediately be marked as 1.9.1+. Otherwise people will have to triage twice.

Posted by alanjstr at April 12, 2008 8:33 AM
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