{"id":320,"date":"2008-12-18T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-12-18T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T21:47:24","slug":"nightly-testers-needed-for-mozilla-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2008-12-18\/nightly-testers-needed-for-mozilla-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightly testers needed for mozilla-central!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users who installed a build of Minefield before 24 November and have been using automatic update since then may be in for a surprise: you are no longer using Minefield or testing mozilla-central!<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" data=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/191-branch-updating.svg\" width=\"400\" height=\"150\">Your browser doesn&#8217;t appear to support SVG. Go <a href=\"http:\/\/getfirefox.com\">get one that does.<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>On 24 November, the Firefox code <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2008\/12\/01\/tree-logistics-migrations-and-checkin-rules-oh-my\/\">branched<\/a>: mozilla-central continues as the repository for all new code. After code has been tested in mozilla-central, it is ported to the 1.9.1 repository, a more stable codebase leading to Firefox 3.1.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, we have many more nightly testers on the stable branch (1.9.1) than we do on mozilla-central. But we really want to catch regressions in mozilla-central before they land on the stable branch. If you are a nightly tester, please go download and install a new Minefield build today! (<a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/firefox\/nightly\/latest-mozilla-central\/firefox-3.2a1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe\">Windows<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/firefox\/nightly\/latest-mozilla-central\/firefox-3.2a1pre.en-US.mac.dmg\">Mac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/firefox\/nightly\/latest-mozilla-central\/firefox-3.2a1pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2\">Linux<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> to figure out whether you&#8217;re running mozilla-central or a 1.9.1 branch nightly, just look at the application title: it will say Minefield for mozilla-central, or Shiretoko for 1.9.1. You can also check the About dialog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users who installed a build of Minefield before 24 November and have been using automatic update since then may be in for a surprise: you are no longer using Minefield or testing mozilla-central! Your browser doesn&#8217;t appear to support SVG. Go get one that does. On 24 November, the Firefox code branched: mozilla-central continues as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[188,186,124,187],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-untagged","tag-branch","tag-minefield","tag-mozilla-central","tag-shiretoko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}