Talk:SeaMonkey/QA: Difference between revisions

Nightly builds refers to builds ("versions") made every night. So last midnight nightly-build has the latest changes and bugfixes (this is the usual, but actually there are builds at any time in the morning, afternoon or night).

Branch refers to developing based on a spcific version, so "Gecko 1.8 branch" refers to Gecko 1.8, Gecko 1.8.1, etc.

Nightly Gecko 1.8 branch builds refers to nightly builds based on an specific version. For example, you can have a last nightly Mozilla Suite 1.7 branch build with a nightly Gecko 1.7 branch build, wich have latest bugfixes to both Mozilla Suite 1.7 and Gecko 1.7, but no new features like CSS3-columns; and a last nightly SeaMonkey 1.0 branch build with last midnight Gecko 1.8 branch build, wich have latest bugfixes to SeaMonkey 1.0 and Gecko 1.8, but no new features like... ehmmm... scrollable table bodies?

Trunk builds are, by definition (AFAIK), nightly builds. They have all features being developed, even if the feature has not a target release defined. Let use scrollable table bodies (STB) as example. Suppose i submit a patch for this feature, it enters in latest trunk, but not in latest nightly Gecko 1.8b build because STB is not a feature planned for the final release Gecko 1.8. Maybe in the future Gecko drivers add it to Gecko 1.8.1 branch, or skip to Gecko 1.9 branch, or it may stay in trunk until it will be added in Gecko 2.0 branch.