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It’s now clear that we’re *not* going to meet our criteria to branch for Gecko 1.8 by 11:59pm pdt on Tuesday, July 26th 2005.

Our original criteria included:

• Deer Park and Thunderbird 1.5 being “Feature Complete” and “String Complete”
• All l10n and build system dependencies resolved
• All major UI work completed
• No major bugs on the radar that would be really painful to patch in both places

The major items holding up the branch include:

• Split windows patch
• A few l10n dependencies and UI changes which prevent us from being “String Complete”

As a result of these open issues we plan on delaying the branch. Please bear with us as we get a better understanding of the scope of the remaining work and put together a detailed action plan for branching Gecko 1.8 and releasing the 1.5 Beta. We will have a new date for the branch by the end of day Wednesday. A detailed 1.5 Beta release plan will follow.

We really appreciate everyone’s hard work on getting us to 1.5, and understand the difficulty delaying the branch poses for Gecko 1.9 developers. If this poses a significant hardship, please do let drivers@mozilla.org know as it will help us in our evaluation of next steps.

/cbeard and schrep

This entry was posted by schrep on Monday, July 25th, 2005 at 10:18 pm and is filed under General.