Branching for Gecko 1.8
As previously announced on the Mozilla Roadmap, now that Deer Park Alpha 2 and Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 2 (1.8b3) have been released, drivers is planning on branching for Gecko 1.8. We will branch in approximately 10 days when we expect to meet the following criteria:
- Deer Park and Thunderbird 1.1 are “feature complete” and “string complete”, with all l10n and build system dependencies resolved, and all major UI work completed.
- There are no major bugs on the radar that would be really painful to patch in both places
Developers should look to resolve any bugs which meet this criteria on the blocking list for 1.8b4. We’re now tracking these branch dependencies with bug 300860.
The target is to close the tree on Tuesday, July 26th at 11:59pm p.d.t. with the intention to branch later that day and the announcement of the branch to follow.
Please note that the trunk is frozen but open for approved check-ins (approval1.8b4). Active management of the blocking list for branching will commence on Monday, July 18th with daily updates posted here.
The plan is for Deer Park Beta (1.8b4) to be released from the branch –but not at the branch point– with two or more Firefox 1.1 Release Candidates to follow before the final release of Firefox 1.1 (1.8). An updated schedule for Deer Park will be posted shortly to the Deer Park Release Tracking and Management Wiki. Additionally, the plan for Thunderbird 1.1 can be found on the Thunderbird Roadmap.
/cbeard