273473 - The Toolkit product lacks target milestones

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

The Toolkit product lacks target milestones.

I think the target milestones for the toolkit product should mirror the gecko
"core" milestones, which currently mirror the seamonkey milestones.

Comment 1

[timeless]

seems like an odd choice

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

(In reply to comment #1)
> seems like an odd choice

ok, let me explain.  this proposal is the logical choice when you consider that
toolkit is tightly coupled with gecko.  moreover, applications built on top of
the toolkit (and hence gecko) should not have to track separate version numbers
for the toolkit and gecko.

AFAIK, there are no plans to try to build a version of toolkit that only uses
frozen interfaces and hence can be decoupled from gecko.  the plan instead is to
release xulrunner + libxul as the vehicle by which gecko is distributed.  then
applications such as firefox and thunderbird would be built on top of that. 
hence, the gecko version (the seamonkey version) will become the version for the
base platform on which xul apps are built.

make sense?

Comment 3

[timeless]

*shrug*. afaik the recent versions of toolkit apps tend to be closely tied to
various random hacks of firefox and not gecko versions. call me a pessimist, but
i don't see that changing.

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

timeless:  have some faith.  we're trying to change things for the better.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I agree with darin here.  Toolkit milestones should sync with Gecko milestones.
 If we introduce a third set of of numbers it'll just add confusion.

Comment 6

[timeless]

for reference, asa added:
mozilla1.8alpha6
mozilla1.8beta
mozilla1.9alpha1