Diffrence in nightly builds?

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Diffrence in nightly builds?

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what is

latest oak?
latest profiling?
latest ux?
latest fx?
latest maple?
latest mozilla-inbound ?
latest mozilla central?
latest accessibility ?
and
latest elm?


These builds are present in the nightly ftp and I wanted to know what do these names means and how are they different from the latest-trunk which is the nightly version in the official nightly site.
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Re: Diffrence in nightly builds?

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Ux? GUI.
inbound? upcoming changes merged frequently with central after testing compiling etc
Central? "Stable" nightly build - all changes when merged from inbound.


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Re: Diffrence in nightly builds?

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UX - https://wiki.mozilla.org/UX_Branch
elm - Windows 8 / Metro support ?
maple - Fennec Native
profiling - mozilla-central+profiling
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oak - silent update
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latest inbound is the alpha version of nightly xD
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mozian wrote:oak - silent update

Is someone using this? I just want to know if Silent Updates are ready to happen in Firefox 14.
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sdrocking wrote:I just want to know if Silent Updates are ready to happen in Firefox 14.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Silent_Update
"1. Feature overview "
No.2 target is Firefox 14
No.6 is 14 or 15
others are already done.
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pal-moz: I already know that. And that doesn't answer my question. [-X
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sdrocking wrote:pal-moz: I already know that. And that doesn't answer my question. [-X


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squall_leonhart wrote:latest inbound is the alpha version of nightly xD


LOL! That's a nice way of putting it.

To further explain for future reference:

- Oak, Maple, Elm, Cedar, Birch, Ash, Alder, Holly are all experiment project branches. These branches are used for various things and are sometimes repurposed after the current occupying project is over. For example, Cedar was just repurposed for Opus Codec integration. Some of them I know and some of them I don't. Maple is the Java frontend for Mobile Firefox - Elm is WinRT - Birch I think is being repurposed soon - Ash, Alder and Holly were older projects, I didn't keep track of what went in those.

- Mozilla Inbound is a buffer for Mozilla Central. Mozilla Central is also called "Trunk" and is where all the latest Gecko production code goes to live. Builds produced from Mozilla Central is branded "Nightly".

- UX means "User Experience" and is where most in-progress user interface changes for Firefox land first for testing before landing in Mozilla Central.
- FX is the branch where user features for Firefox usually land first for testing before landing in Mozilla Central.
- Profiling is a new branch focused on the new performance profiling tool for Gecko.
- Accessibility is for accessibility features naturally.

@mozian

Yeah, that's WinRT/Windows 8 Metro Version.

Oak is about to shut down soon due to the code being up for review. The silent update meetings were canceled until further notice due to that.
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Re: Diffrence in nightly builds?

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is there an inbound for UX? like central inbound
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Rakstrooper wrote:is there an inbound for UX? like central inbound

If I understand the question, I don't think so. The only thing "up-stream" of the UX branch would be the dev's personal trees, no public staging area as far as I know.
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Re: Diffrence in nightly builds?

Post by iSaad »

what is nightly gum?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... atest-gum/


and in Aurora and nightly-trunk folders, what is difference between
firefox-38.0a1.en-US.win64-x86_64.installer.exe
and
firefox-38.0a1.en-US.win64.installer.exe
???
both are 64bit. but what is difference??
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Not sure. But they both have different csets. I think one might be PGO related.

Gum was a branch devoted to necko related development. It hosted the new cache experiment at one point. Not sure what's on it now.
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Rakstrooper wrote:is there an inbound for UX? like central inbound
fx-team is used for UX among other things (session restore patches tend to land there first, I don't know what else). fx-team is also the branch that Australis builds used, but it's less meaningful now.

Edit: The ux project branch hasn't seen any landings since May last year, fwiw. The fx-team integration branch is still in active use. I'm not sure what 'fx' is supposed to stand for. Effects? Firefox? IIRC there is an actual 'Firefox' team now split off from Gecko as a whole to prioritize fixes and improvements to the browser, but that's fairly recent.
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