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=== | === What is the current status of the Mozilla Suite? === | ||
The 1.7 release of the Mozilla suite is the last major release to be an official mozilla.org product. This release will be maintained with 1.7.x releases to fix known security problems or other critical issues but there will be no official Mozilla Application Suite 1.8 release. This will enable the foundation to ensure that the quality of the standalone applications continues to be high, even with the modest resources avaliable. | |||
Although the Suite is no longer an official product, it will continue to be a community lead ''project'', and will recieve substantial support from the fondation in terms of webtools such as CVS, LXR and bugzilla. The product will be "driven" by members of the community who will be responsible for maintaining code, dictating the release schedule and performing QA on the final releases. More information on the organisational structure that has developed to maintain the suite and manage future releases is on the [http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page Seamonkey Homepage] of the [http://wiki.mozilla.org/ mozilla.org wiki]. | |||
Since the suite is no longer a Mozilla Foundation project, it has been agreed that the name and version number of the next release must change. In particular it is not possible to use the "Mozilla" trademark on an unofficial project. It appears that the name of the next release will be "Seamonkey 1.0" (Seamonkey is the longtime codename of the Suite project). | |||
Despite the fact that the foundation are no longer making new suite releases, foundation members have provided significant advice to the community on how to organise successful future releases of a Gecko-based suite. | |||
Revision as of 11:52, 20 March 2005
What is the current status of the Mozilla Suite?
The 1.7 release of the Mozilla suite is the last major release to be an official mozilla.org product. This release will be maintained with 1.7.x releases to fix known security problems or other critical issues but there will be no official Mozilla Application Suite 1.8 release. This will enable the foundation to ensure that the quality of the standalone applications continues to be high, even with the modest resources avaliable.
Although the Suite is no longer an official product, it will continue to be a community lead project, and will recieve substantial support from the fondation in terms of webtools such as CVS, LXR and bugzilla. The product will be "driven" by members of the community who will be responsible for maintaining code, dictating the release schedule and performing QA on the final releases. More information on the organisational structure that has developed to maintain the suite and manage future releases is on the Seamonkey Homepage of the mozilla.org wiki.
Since the suite is no longer a Mozilla Foundation project, it has been agreed that the name and version number of the next release must change. In particular it is not possible to use the "Mozilla" trademark on an unofficial project. It appears that the name of the next release will be "Seamonkey 1.0" (Seamonkey is the longtime codename of the Suite project).
Despite the fact that the foundation are no longer making new suite releases, foundation members have provided significant advice to the community on how to organise successful future releases of a Gecko-based suite.
