Just a reminder that this is now less than a week away. Please be mindful of any large/risky patches targeting 61 as time is running low to land them before the soft freeze begins.
Thanks, Ryan On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Ryan VanderMeulen < rvandermeu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > On April 26th, we will be merging Firefox 61 from mozilla-central to beta > for > the first time. In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of > late > nightly and the early Developer Edition builds and to ensure that we can > roll > out Beta 61 to a wider audience with confidence, we'd like to ask that any > risky changes be avoided from April 26th until after the version bump to > 62 on > May 7th. > > Some reminders for during the soft code freeze: > Do: > - Be ready to backout patches that cause crash spikes, new crashes, > severe regressions > - Monitor new regressions and escalate merge blockers > - Support release management by prioritizing fixing of merge blockers > > Do Not: > - Land a risky patch or a large patch > - Land new features (that affects the current nightly version) — be > mindful that code behind NIGHTLY_BUILD or RELEASE_OR_BETA ifdefs can lead > to unexpected CI results > - Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in Nightly cycle > - Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's merge > readiness > > Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns. > > Thanks, > Release Management Team > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
