381418 - Change versioning system for Thunderbird trunk builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Michael Mak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070520 Minefield/3.0a5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070520 Thunderbird/3.0a1 ID:2007052003 [cairo]

At the moment, Thunderbird trunk's version is Thunderbird 3.0a1. However this is causing some confusion among users as if it is an alpha version for Thunderbird 3.

To avoid this confusion, we should change the versioning system in line with Firefox trunk - ie change it to Thunderbird 3.0a1pre for trunk. 

It helps the users to understand it is a pre-release version of Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on help
2.Then 'about'
3.Version: Thunderbird 3.0a1
Actual Results:  
It displays the current version as Thunderbird 3.0a1

Expected Results:  
In line with Firefox trunk's versioning system - Thunderbird 3.0a1pre

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Great idea. Would you like to work up a patch or get me to do it ?

Comment 2

[Michael Mak]

It would be great if you can do it. I know very little about programming.

Thanks :)

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Attachment: Sync up Thunderbird to new versioning style

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 265507 [details] [diff] [review]
Sync up Thunderbird to new versioning style

great idea guys!

Comment 5

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Landed mail/app/module.ver and mail/config/version.txt, and the changed version should show up in the next clobber build (ie nightly). I'll land the rest after that nightly and close the bug then.

Comment 6

[Michael Mak]

Thanks for your work! :)