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== SeaMonkey 1.0 release plan == | == SeaMonkey 1.0 release plan == | ||
SeaMonkey 1.0, the first release of our new project, | SeaMonkey 1.0, the first release of our new project, is what a "Mozilla 1.8" application suite was meant to be. As such, it was released from the Gecko 1.8 base, which it shares with the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5 releases. | ||
We released an Alpha and a Beta release from the Mozilla 1.8 branch on the way to that 1.0 release: | |||
* [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/1.0a.html SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha] was released from Gecko 1.8b4, paralleling the Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 Beta1 releases done by Mozilla Foundation. While the basic codebase may be more beta than alpha quality, our new release process is not completely settled, we don't have our final [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/artwork.html Artwork] yet and we have no dedicated release machines in place, so it's better to call this an early testing release or "Alpha". | * [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/1.0a.html SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha] was released from Gecko 1.8b4, paralleling the Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 Beta1 releases done by Mozilla Foundation. While the basic codebase may be more beta than alpha quality, our new release process is not completely settled, we don't have our final [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/artwork.html Artwork] yet and we have no dedicated release machines in place, so it's better to call this an early testing release or "Alpha". | ||
* [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/ | * [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/1.0b.html SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta] was released from Gecko 1.8, like the Firefox 1.5 release. This testing release also incorporated our new [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/artwork.html Logo Artwork] for the first time. A sample userAgent/About string for it is <tt>Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051219 SeaMonkey/1.0b</tt> | ||
* SeaMonkey 1.0 | * [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/ SeaMonkey 1.0] was shipped January 30th 2006 off the Gecko 1.8.0 branch, which might get a few security/stability fixes, but no big changes from what we shipped with beta. A sample userAgent/About string for it is <tt>Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0</tt> | ||
''We have [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/contrib/latest-mozilla1.8.0/ 1.0 nightly builds]; please help us testing them!'' | |||
The release processes are managed by the SeaMonkey Council, Chris Thomas is the release engineer in charge of that process. | The release processes are managed by the SeaMonkey Council, Chris Thomas is the release engineer in charge of that process. | ||
The QA work needed for releases is overseen by our QA lead Andrew Schultz. | The [[SeaMonkey:QA|QA work]] needed for releases is overseen by our QA lead Andrew Schultz. | ||
== Release Checklist(s) == | == Release Checklist(s) == | ||