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Plan for Mozilla Firefox and the release
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| Eric Dorland 2004-08-07, 5:51 pm |
| Hello all,
This is more of a plan/call for help. As of August 17th, we will
basically be frozen. August 13th also happens to be when I'm jetting
off for two weeks in Australia (the rest of my packages are in good
shape, see http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=eric). Firefox
1.0RC1 is scheduled to be released August 10th. This is a pretty tight
time frame.
The problem is that 0.9 firefox isn't in testing and probably won't
make it. There are two release critical bugs holding it back. I need
the help of alpha porters to nail #259836. The other is #259046, which
is more fundamental problem with 0.9, the new extension manager is
broken. It's been fixed upstream, but the changes are rather
invasive, and I'm loathe to back port them.
So I'm going to push to get 1.0RC1 into sarge. As soon as it's
released I'm going to package it up and push it into unstable. I
realize this is generally considered bad form, but getting a newer
version of firefox is also desirable since 0.8 contains a number of
security issues.
So, on one hand I need maintainers who package locales and extensions
to be aware that this is going to happen. On the other hand I need a
couple of volunteers to help guide firefox into sarge with NMUs and
what not, since I'll be away the period of August 13th to September
1st. I'd really be grateful to anyone who could help out, thanks.
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Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca>
ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com
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| Eric Dorland 2004-08-12, 8:48 pm |
| Well it looks like the firefox team missed their release, so I
obviously couldn't package it. I hope some one can step up and do some
work on the package while I'm away, since no work is coming out of me
for the next 2.5 weeks 
Take care everyone, good luck with the continuing release process.
* Eric Dorland (eric@debian.org) wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is more of a plan/call for help. As of August 17th, we will
> basically be frozen. August 13th also happens to be when I'm jetting
> off for two weeks in Australia (the rest of my packages are in good
> shape, see http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=eric). Firefox
> 1.0RC1 is scheduled to be released August 10th. This is a pretty tight
> time frame.
>
> The problem is that 0.9 firefox isn't in testing and probably won't
> make it. There are two release critical bugs holding it back. I need
> the help of alpha porters to nail #259836. The other is #259046, which
> is more fundamental problem with 0.9, the new extension manager is
> broken. It's been fixed upstream, but the changes are rather
> invasive, and I'm loathe to back port them.
>
> So I'm going to push to get 1.0RC1 into sarge. As soon as it's
> released I'm going to package it up and push it into unstable. I
> realize this is generally considered bad form, but getting a newer
> version of firefox is also desirable since 0.8 contains a number of
> security issues.
>
> So, on one hand I need maintainers who package locales and extensions
> to be aware that this is going to happen. On the other hand I need a
> couple of volunteers to help guide firefox into sarge with NMUs and
> what not, since I'll be away the period of August 13th to September
> 1st. I'd really be grateful to anyone who could help out, thanks.
>
--
Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca>
ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com
1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+
O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+
G e h! r- y+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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| Mike Hommey 2004-08-16, 5:59 pm |
| On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:12:35PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Well it looks like the firefox team missed their release, so I
> obviously couldn't package it. I hope some one can step up and do some
> work on the package while I'm away, since no work is coming out of me
> for the next 2.5 weeks
Well, I took some advance in the progress of having something ready for
when firefox 1.0 first rc will be released.
So, I pulled the aviary 1.0 branch from mozilla.org cvs (work branch for
firefox 1.0) and built a new package out of it[1]. It is supposed to solve
at least RC bug #259046, but I didn't have time to fully test it, nor to
go on through the process of checking what needed to be changed in admin
scripts, considering upstream changes.
Anyway, if some people could give hand on testing this build and give
feedback about bugs (not only #259046) possibly being solved, or even
test building it on some other arches, that would be appreciated.
I'm considering uploading a NMU to experimental for next release of the
package (after some more changes and checks), I think Eric wouldn't
mind, but I'd be needing a sponsor for that.
Thanks for your help.
Mike
PS: bug #259046 Cced for record.
[1]
http://glandium.org/debian/unstable...-1_i386.changes
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| Mike Hommey 2004-08-16, 5:59 pm |
| On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:42:57AM +0900, I wrote:
> Anyway, if some people could give hand on testing this build and give
> feedback about bugs (not only #259046) possibly being solved, or even
> test building it on some other arches, that would be appreciated.
> I'm considering uploading a NMU to experimental for next release of the
> package (after some more changes and checks), I think Eric wouldn't
> mind, but I'd be needing a sponsor for that.
Mmmmm... the preferences panel seems to be broken... first problem...
Mike
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