Education Project/Effort/Replace Mozilla175

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This task is the first one of the application. ETA ~end august/early september


Draft for the Planning

Mozilla 1.7.5 -> Seamonkey migration
Task week 1
14th july
19th july
week 2
21st july
26th july
week 3
28thjuly
2nd august
week 4
4th august
9th august
week 5
11th august
16th august
week 6
18th august
23th august
week 7
25th august
30th august
Status Comments
Check the sources (one milestone)
Understand how cvs manages the sources ( CVS dirs)
Configure step : find information, be able to modify configure.in
Understand the bootstrap
Build mozilla archive separately
Fix a build issue (bad compiler option maybe)
Understand how patches are used at buildtime
Modify the makefile, and start building seamonkey ( basic patch provided )
Define a strategy for the migration
Modify configure (replace mozilla checking with seamonkey checking)
Apply the changes progressively ( and propose tests for the QA)
Project Reviews First
project review
Propose patches to commit the changes in several cws
Verify it works on other ports ( Mac OS X , windows )
Verify the crashes are fixed (see relevant issues)
Write report for task 1


  • Create a Gantt diagram / Planning
  • ....
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