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International Info & Testing Hints for Milestone Builds
Maintained by: Katsuhiko Momoi
Last update: 11/17/99
What is "Milestone" and how you
should approach testing Mozilla:
Many of you are familiar with Netscape beta releases. A beta release
is made when the development stage is fairly close to the formal release
and the devoper would like to obtain feedback from the public.
Mozilla has not reached the beta stage yet. To keep track of the development
progress for the Netscape-branded Communicator client, Netscape has establsihed
a number of "milestones" which are released every so many weeks. For each
milestone, each module group has committed to enable a set of features
important and practical for that Milestone. Thus, at any given time, the
development process has the "current completed" milestone and the next
milestone in progress.
What does this mean to those who want to help test internaitonal features?
I would recommend that each tester keep the following in mind when she/he
downloads a build or compile a build from the source:
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Read current installation instructions carefully to avoid frustration.
It is usually detailed in Milestone
builds release information.
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Learn what international features have been enabled and if they are the
features which interest you, or are in your area of testing expertise.
If so, update your source or download the daily build and start testing.
To get information on what features have been enabled toward the next milestone,
follow the link under the Next Milestone section below.
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How should we use the Current/Last Completed Milestone Build ?
The most current completed Milstone build offers a reference point to compare
the progress since the Milstone build was released. This will give
you an idea of what features should be working right now. Sometimes, you
may find a regression in the cureent build when compared to the current/last
completed Milestone build. Milestone builds are also stable builds. They
can be used more reliably than daily builds in which developers are more
concerned about enabling new features or experinmental ideas.
Current/Last Completed Milestone
build: M11
(based on the source around 11/11/99)
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The detailed M11 international features and testing notes are found here:
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The detailed M10 international features and testing notes are found here:
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The detailed M9 international features and testing notes are found here:
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The detailed M8 international features and testing notes are found here:
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The detailed M7 international features and testing notes are found here:
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The detailed M6 international features and testing notes are found here:
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The detailed M5 international features and testing notes are found here:
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The detailed M4 international features and testing notes are found here:
Next Milestone: M12
(the source after 11/12/99)
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To test current builds, you should know what features have been enable
since the last Milestone. This page keeps
track of what features have been enabled.
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M11 engineering status can be found here:
Questions/Suggestions --> post to:
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