Fx29  to ship to users on Friday, May 9th with updates completely unthrottled.

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lukas Blakk <[email protected]>
> Subject: Drivers for 29.0.1 Desktop & Mobile non-urgent releases
> Date: May 5, 2014 at 2:14:52 PM PDT
> To: release-drivers <[email protected]>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Now that the weekend has passed and we got more users on Firefox 29, we have 
> feedback about what the potential explosive/high-impact issues for this 
> release could be.  While there is so far no indication of a security exploit 
> necessitating a chemspill, we have several small issues that can be resolved 
> in a non-urgent dot release, laid out below.  The timing for this release aim 
> to have it signed off and ready to ship to users on Friday, May 9th with 
> updates completely unthrottled.
> 
> Desktop Known Issues:
> 
> * 1003707 – pdf.js print prints a white page - this has a backout option and 
> is the 'driver' of the desktop dot release
> * 1001167 – Session Restore doesn't handle a corrupted sessionstore.js file 
> properly - patch ready, low risk, regression new to 29
> * 907373 – -moz-os-version media query is not working on Windows 8.1 - patch 
> ready, low risk, helps users with dark themes on Windows
> * 1005958 – Disable seer until new backend is rewritten  - patch ready, lower 
> risk workaround for shutdown hangs in bug 966469
> 
> Mobile Known Issues:
> 
> * 1005074 – Re-enable 'Send Tab to Devices' on Beta and Release with a string 
> swap -- has a low risk patch, this is the 'driver' for our non-urgent dot 
> release
> * 987867 – JB & KK crash in java.util.ConcurrentModificationException: at 
> java.util.LinkedList$LinkIterator.next(LinkedList.java) - has patch, fixes 
> reproducible crash, verified on Beta
> * 1003897 – Character Encoding selection broken in Fennec 29 - has a verified 
> backout
> 
> 
> Timing:
> * Patches approved and landed today
> * Go to build, this evening once all are landed and tree is green
> * Builds with QA starting late tonight
> * Sign off on or before Friday May 9th, 8am Pacific time
> * Push 29.0.1, unthrottled to the release channel (and to Google Play Store) 
> by 9am Pacific time
> * We have the entire day, Pacific time to continue to watch the Sync Account 
> traffic/load
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or potential ride-alongs 
> that we are not aware of.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Lukas
> *-*-*-*-*-*
> Release Manager, Mozillian
> mozillians.org/lsblakk
> 
> 
> 
> 
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