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<span class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">For the Aurora builds, we're
not going to be able to call them "Aurora" because that name will
clash with the Firefox version. We don't want to use "Thunderbird
Aurora" because that introduces the official name which starts to
imply various standards that we don't want to promise to users at
that stage.</span>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1302"><span
class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">The
Nightly/Aurora/Beta/Release brandings of Firefox are designed to
imply emerging features coming through the channels. We'd like
to keep a sense of that for Thunderbird as well.</span></div>
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class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">So we need a new code name.
Drivers had a chat about this a while ago, and we came up with
Borealis as a favourite due to its association with Aurora (</span><span
class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7 url"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29)</a></span><span
class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1363"><span
class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">If anyone has any more
suggestions, please let us know. We'll probably be making the
final decision on Wednesday as we need to get these builds
started, and having the code name at the beginning will be much
easier.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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