Correction, avoid risky changes from Aug 26th to Sept 2. Thanks to kwierso for pointing out my typo.
- Liz On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:41 AM Liz Henry (:lizzard) <ehe...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > On August 26th, we will be merging Firefox 70 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 70 to a wider audience with confidence, we'd > like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from July 1st until after > the version bump to 71 on Sept 2. Please also be mindful of any > landings late this week or over the weekend as there will be very little > buffer between the first merge and shipping the 70.0b1 builds. > > Some reminders for the soft code freeze period: > > Do: > - Be ready to back out 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 > > > -- > ---- > Liz Henry (:lizzard) > Firefox Release Manager > lhe...@mozilla.com > -- ---- Liz Henry (:lizzard) Firefox Release Manager lhe...@mozilla.com _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
