update on 2.35 news

Hi,

Another update on 2.35.

1) build3 was ‘somewhat’ done but needs to be rebuilt due to  some misconfiguration on my part.  It doesn’t mean that  build3 is a bust.  It isn’t.  It’s just that it’s uploading  the files to the wrong places. (First time it uploaded was   to the nightlies tree. :P)

2) l10n repacks needs fixing.  I’ve been told it won’t  require a build4(read: Callek’s gonna do his cset magic),   but I guess we shall see.

3) Once the repacks are done, the *real* work is on getting  the CVS-based-system-now-migrated-to-Mercurial part of  the release process working.  But thankfully, this part  is automated, so I won’t be the reason for the slow down.

Again, thanks for your patience while I work on this.

:ewong

NB: Due to my concentrating on getting the release done, I haven’t done a single Windows nightly in a while, and even then, it was in fit and starts due to tree bustage.   I humbly apologize for that (for the not getting a windows nightly released… not the tree bustage.  )

NB2: Comm-central AND comm-aurora are in a painful state due to a bunch of interrelated bugs, so there haven’t been any builds or nightlies in  some time.  While the patches are up for review(iirc), it just needs time to review them and I could do a post-land-review, but these patches *also* affect the Release builds and I think it was a good idea NOT to fix those bugs (at the sacrifice of c-c and c-a).  But once this release is done, we *will* fix the tree.

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I'm a SeaMonkey dev/RelEnger and a bit of a buildbot dev.
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13 Responses to update on 2.35 news

    • ewong says:

      At this point, it’s too early to know what the decision is. I’m guessing the SeaMonkey project (unless we get a big boost of $$$ and contributors) will have to go with what Firefox is doing. I do understand this *isn’t* what anyone wants to read, but it’s really not realistic to expect a small group such as ours to maintain that large codebase (prior to XUL being ‘frozen’, as in no new development, a *lot* of people maintained it).

      That said, things can change… so we shall see.

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