BrowserWatch heeft een artikel gepost over de status van Mozilla / Netscape 5. De info is afkomstig uit een mailtje van een Netscape developer en geeft een interessante kijk op de ontwikkelingen die daar nu gaande zijn. Op dit moment staat Milestone 13 voor de deur, waarin nog 800 bekende bugs gefixt moeten worden:
We all share the larger goal of shipping a product. Toward that end, the step we must take before doing so is to create and ship an alpha, or a beta. Mozilla is talking about the possibility of having M13 act as an alpha. Within Netscape, we are now talking about making M14 the basis of either an alpha or beta release of some sort. The details are still being decided, but the near term goal at Netscape is clear: To ship a pre-release variant of Seamonkey.In focusing on this potential Netscape release, managers and engineers have been aggressively triaging their bugs into target fix versions of M13 and M14. The goal is to get anything out of our way that is not critical to the release, and to focus on all gathering together at M14 with an alpha/beta quality product.
The intent is for M13 to freeze (for regression fixing) on midnight 1/17/2000. We expect that the regression work will take less than a week if we can! ! hit that date with darn near zero M13 bugs. You should all expect to see a lot of fixes, and retargetting going on this week as we work towards this first goal.
