The next merge to central will have a 73 milestone, so please consider the soft freeze lifted.
Thanks, Julien On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 4:25 PM Julien Cristau <jcris...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > we're fast approaching the start of the 72 beta cycle on December 2nd, > with our "Feature complete" milestone for 72 tomorrow, November 22nd. > > In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late Nightly and > to ensure that we can roll out Beta 72 to a wider audience with confidence, > we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from November 25 until > after the version bump > to 73 on December 2nd. > > 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 affect 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 the 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, > Julien and the Release Management team > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
