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If we branch early, we're splitting resources, both developer and QA and we're splitting focus. This was a most unpleasant experience on the 1.7 branch for both the branch and trunk folks. There is probably no way to get around a month or two on the branch, but three months or more sounds like pain. | If we branch early, we're splitting resources, both developer and QA and we're splitting focus. This was a most unpleasant experience on the 1.7 branch for both the branch and trunk folks. There is probably no way to get around a month or two on the branch, but three months or more sounds like pain. | ||
If we decide to branch later, then the tree would stay closed after the alphas and until we ship Firefox and Thunderbird 1.1 beta (and possibly a preview of XULRunner) and digest that feedback. During that tree closure, we'd be focused on responding to the feedback from the 1.1 alphas and fixing both core Gecko and XULRunner issues as well as Firefox and Thunderbird app issues. | If we decide to branch later, then the tree would stay closed after the alphas and until we ship Firefox and Thunderbird 1.1 beta (and possibly a preview of XULRunner) and digest that feedback. During that tree closure, we'd be focused on responding to the feedback from the 1.1 alphas and fixing both core Gecko and XULRunner issues as well as Firefox and Thunderbird app issues. Being frozen on the trunk after beta, which is also the freeze for localizable strings, would give our L10N teams a chance to get their locales completed or nearly completed on the trunk before branching. This could save them considerable time as compared to branching sooner. | ||
Staying closed on the trunk makes little sense if we can't all rally around the tasks that need doing for the 1.8 branch and releases (Firefox, Thunderbird, and XULRunner). | Staying closed on the trunk makes little sense if we can't all rally around the tasks that need doing for the 1.8 branch and releases (Firefox, Thunderbird, and XULRunner). | ||
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|Driving the 1.1 releases and helping out how ever I can with XULRunner | |Driving the 1.1 releases and helping out how ever I can with XULRunner. | ||
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|Boris Zbarsky | |Boris Zbarsky | ||