Firefox 2.0.0.9 by the (wall-clock) numbers
Posted by Peng on 5 November 2007
Last week Nanci posted that Mozilla had some regressions in Firefox 2.0.0.8, and Froday she posted that Firefox 2.0.0.9 was available. John O’Duinn wrote an interesting post about just how long it took Mozilla to get from “oh shit” to “it’s here!” Granted, the bugs had been fixed once already, but it’s interesting to see just how fast ittook.
From “do we need a release” to “release is now available to public” was 11 days 2 hours wall-clock time. Beta period took 2.75 days. Build&Release took 37 hours.
That’s a pretty amazing speed, considering they have to deal with three operating systems and the build process isn’t completely human-free yet. If you want to see all the details you can get them on John’s blog.
