On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Kevin Brosnan <kbros...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> There is no Aurora/Developer edition channel any more so there will not be
> any b1 or b2 builds as those numbers will be used for desktop developer
> edition.
>

Ahh, I misread the initial email – this won't affect us because we don't
have the developer edition population. Sorry for the scare!

Thanks for pointing that out, Kevin (and Sebastian on IRC)! :)
- Mike (:mcomella)

>
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Michael Comella <mcome...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
>> FYI.
>>
>> *For Firefox for Android Activity Stream folks*, since I don't think we
>> were expecting to freeze feature development before the 57 merge date
>> (21st), our Beta users will see our in progress development from the 14th
>> to the 21st. As such, we'll have to be considerate about our changes will
>> affect Beta users – e.g. users might expect Settings in Activity Stream
>> before small polish items like centering icons.
>>
>> Let's take this into account when triaging on Monday, if we don't want to
>> retriage sooner.
>> - Mike (:mcomella)
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Sylvestre Ledru <s...@mozilla.com>
>> Date: Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 6:07 AM
>> Subject: 57 beta cycle: 57beta/devedition published earlier + soft freeze
>> To: dev-platform <dev-platf...@lists.mozilla.org>, Firefox Dev <
>> firefox-...@mozilla.org>, fx-team <fx-t...@mozilla.com>, epm-status <
>> epm-sta...@mozilla.com>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> tldr: we are going to do a first merge of m-c => m-b and use the
>> devedition population one week earlier to push 57.0b1 & 57.0b2.
>>
>> In order to maximize beta testing, we are going to take advantage of the
>> fact that we have a different set of users with the developer edition
>> (which is, since the completion of the dawn project, based on
>> mozilla-beta).
>> September 14th, we will merge mozilla-central => mozilla-beta and
>> mozilla-beta => mozilla-release. September 19th, we will push to the
>> devedition population the first beta of 57. Later, we will be pushing a
>> second beta to this channel.
>> In parallel, to minimize the impact on the developer, mozilla-central
>> will remain 57.0a1 and will be merged to mozilla-beta transparently.
>> Nightly will become 58.0a1 on September 21th.
>> The regular beta population will remain on 56 and will be provided
>> updates to the RC builds.
>>
>> The milestones are detailed in this Google doc:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jeypuqBqEyIh-4qxXT0UnE2a
>> VjetN7uVD8W7L7TbWKg/edit
>>
>> In parallel, as the soft freeze demonstrated its value during previous
>> cycles, we are going to use this again during the 57 nightly cycle. From
>> September 18th, we will ask you to land only bug fixes, stability or
>> important performance fixes. New development not planned for 57 should
>> land once mozilla-central will become 58 (September 21th).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sylvestre
>>
>>
>>
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