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The history above shows that a monthly-quarterly release schedule can actually have a dramatic and positive effect on quality, where the quality level of a disastrous Netscape 6/Mozilla 0.6 was incrementally transformed into increasingly better milestones that also lead to successful Mozilla 1.0 and then Firefox 1.0 releases. | The history above shows that a monthly-quarterly release schedule can actually have a dramatic and positive effect on quality, where the quality level of a disastrous Netscape 6/Mozilla 0.6 was incrementally transformed into increasingly better milestones that also lead to successful Mozilla 1.0 and then Firefox 1.0 releases. | ||
We should demand ever increasing quality of the new faster paced release plan | We should demand ever increasing quality of the new faster paced release plan. | ||
Scaling the size of the web from where it was in 2004 we should be able to turn those 300,000-3 million users that helped bring Firefox to its initial release to a larger community of 10 million that will give us more and faster feedback on short development cycle releases. We should stop rolling our eyes at this goal and start acting to make it happen. The ground work for this has been laid in the Firefox 4 beta program, and needs to continue. The 10 million goal is achievable. | Scaling the size of the web from where it was in 2004 we should be able to turn those 300,000-3 million users that helped bring Firefox to its initial release to a larger community of 10 million that will give us more and faster feedback on short development cycle releases. We should stop rolling our eyes at this goal and start acting to make it happen. The ground work for this has been laid in the Firefox 4 beta program, and needs to continue. The 10 million goal is achievable. | ||