Education Project/Effort/Replace Mozilla175
This task is the first one of the application. ETA ~end august/early september
Todo / objectives to be validated:
- check the sources (one milestone)
- understand how cvs manages the sources ( CVS dirs)
- configure step : find information, be able to modify configure.in
- bootstrap
- build mozilla archive separately :
-- file an issue for a breaker on AMD64 (aka x86_64)
-- 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)
- 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)
- Create a Gantt diagram / Planning
- ....