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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/2012 3:35 AM, Mark Banner
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Hi All,<br>
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With the move to the new release model, and as per the plan, we're
still expecting to do new beta releases once per cycle.<br>
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I would like to propose that we move the beta release to the
second week of a gecko rapid release cycle - i.e. although Firefox
would release a new gecko beta around the same time as a new
release point (e.g. 18.0b1 normally comes out a day after 17.0),
we'd actually wait a week before building and releasing
Thunderbird 18.0b1.<br>
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I'm all in favor of moving the beta later, but I had assumed it
would be even later, like near the end of a rapid release cycle.
I've suggested that the betas be promoted as an "early adopter"
version of Thunderbird. If the beta is also an early adopter
version, it would be best to have the beta as late as possible.<br>
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Is there any chance of doing both? My understanding was that the
rate of betas was being reduced to conserve resources. Since we
agreed to drop the mid-year full release, we are using less
resources than we were originally allocated. Could we use those
resources to have a two beta cycle, one at the point you suggested
and another at the end of the rapid release cycle?<br>
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:rkent<br>
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