Hello everyone, August 23rd is now upon us and the soft freeze has begun. It will end on September 4 once the Gecko version number is bumped to 64 on mozilla-central.
Thanks, Ryan On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:14 AM Pascal Chevrel <pchev...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hello, > > This is a reminder that the Nightly Soft Freeze is now less than a week > away. Please be mindful of any large or risky patches targeting Firefox > 63 before the soft freeze begins and we begin merges to the Beta branch. > > Thanks! > > Pascal > > > Le 09/08/2018 à 15:18, Pascal Chevrel a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > On August 23, we will be merging Firefox 63 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 63 to a wider audience with confidence, we'd > > like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from August 23 until after > > the version bump to 64 on September 4th. > > > > Some reminders for the soft code freeze period: > > > > 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 > > > > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Release_Process#Nightly_soft_code_freeze > > > > > -- > Pascal Chevrel > Staff Project Manager - Firefox Nightly > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Nightly > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
