SillyDog701

[Andrew T.]

I made my own Mozilla development tree diagram, listing releases of the Mozilla application suite (since 1.0), Netscape, and Mozilla Firefox (since Firebird 0.7) and where they stand in relation to each other as far as development and codebases go.

It's simplified (it omits most testing releases, for example) and is a little rough in appearance, but should make Mozilla development as well as concepts like a "trunk" or "branch" easier to understand.

Future software releases are shaded in gray.



(Maybe I should add some leaves, too!)

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[Fulvio]

Very nice!

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[beanboy89]

Wow Andrew, that's really neat. Good work.

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[Fulvio]

For some reason, the tree had not surfaced when I looked at it. My comment was about Andrew's website. But, the tree, which grew overnight is pretty good , too. But, the User Agent calls FF1.0 1.7.5, same as the Mozilla. I understand, and, I, also, don't.

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[Al]

Shouldn't Fx1.0 PR be on the 1.7.3 branch and FX1.0 be on the 1.7.5

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[beanboy89]

Shouldn't Fx1.0 PR be on the 1.7.3 branch and FX1.0 be on the 1.7.5

Firefox 0.9.x, 0.10.x, and 1.0.x were all built from the same branch known as the "Aviary" Branch which was created from the Mozilla 1.7 Branch. See the Mozilla Roadmap and scroll down to the "milestone schedule" for more on this.

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[Al]

I get it now...

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[James]

Oops! I hit the New rather than the Reply button. Mea Culpa! Didn't realize this until I arrived home this evening.

Okay. Let me restate here what I said there:

Interesting, Andrew. Now the question: what does it all mean? What is the purpose of such a tree? I'm not certain I can really see any logical development here. It appears that there is little forethought to the direction the development takes. That is... if a certain branch shows promise, then development seems to shift in that direction at the expense of the other branches which then cease to be.

With Opera or IE it seems to me that we dealing with a much more simplistic idea.... a more monolithic one. I've felt for a long time now that the division of Mozilla into the suite and the browser/email client (FF/TB) was unwise. Why they have decided to continue this way is quite beyond me. It seems like a division of labor ... a sort of weakening and slowing down what could be achieved if all development were aimed at a single suite of apps.

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