Tree Rules/comm-central

Due to multiple applications using comm-central different parts of comm-central can have different rules at different times. We try to keep these as simple as possible, if in doubt, please ask on irc.

Owned Areas

These are the directories and areas which are seen as "owned" by a particular comm-central application. The tree rules for each app apply to these directories and files.

Thunderbird

Thunderbird Rules affect these directories & areas in comm-central:

• Build Config (e.g. configure.in, build/, config/)
• directory/
• editor/
• mailnews/
• mail/
• other-licenses/*/thunderbird/

SeaMonkey

• suite/
• other-licenses/*/seamonkey/

Calendar

• calendar/
• other-licenses/*/sunbird/

comm-central (trunk) Rules

See above for which directories are owned by which application.

Thunderbird

When open: OPEN to all checkins following the checkin rules

Please ask on #maildev if you have questions.

SeaMonkey

When open: OPEN to all checkins following the checkin rules

Please ask on #seamonkey if you have questions.

Calendar

• Calendar strings are frozen for the 1.0 beta 1 release.
  • No changes to strings are allowed.

Please ask on #calendar if you have questions.

comm-1.9.2 (branch) Rules

See above for which directories are owned by which application.

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird is string and feature frozen in preparation for the 3.1 release candidates.
• Checkins are allowed only if:
  • Strings in mail/locales and editor/ui are not affected.
  • The patch has approval-thunderbird3.1+ (where 'x' is the number of the next release).
  • The patch is not on a bug which has already been resolved as fixed for a Thunderbird 3.1 release.

Note: wanted and blocking bugs do not approve a patch for check in.

See Thunderbird/Landing_Patches_on_Thunderbird3.1 for more information about getting approval for landing patches for Thunderbird 3.1.

SeaMonkey

N/A - SeaMonkey does not participate on the 1.9.2 branch.

Calendar

TBD.

comm-1.9.1 (branch) Rules

See above for which directories are owned by which application.

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird is code frozen in preparation for the 3.0 release candidates.
• Checkins are allowed only if:
  • Strings in mail/locales and editor/ui are not affected.
  • The patch has approval-thunderbird3.0.x+ (where 'x' is the number of the next release).

Note: wanted and blocking bugs do not approve a patch for check in.

See Thunderbird/Thunderbird3_Security_And_Stability_Releases for more information about requirements for getting approval to landing patches.

SeaMonkey

• SeaMonkey on comm-1.9.1 is restricted to security, stability and polish fixes in the 2.0.x series
• Checkins are allowed only if:
  • The patch has explicit approval-seamonkey2.0.x+ where x is the next upcoming non-tagged stability update.

When requesting approval, please state the (stability) risk this patch poses and the reason we need to take it for the 2.0 series.

Please ask on #seamonkey if you have questions.

Calendar

There is no active development on the comm-1.9.1 branch for Calendar.