Soft code freeze for Firefox 64 starts October 15

[Pascal Chevrel]

Hi all,

The soft code freeze period is now over.

Regards

Pascal


Le 10/10/2018 à 17:07, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> On October 15, we will be merging Firefox 64 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 64 to a wider audience with confidence,
> we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from October 15 until
> after the version bump to 65 on October 22.  Please also be mindful of
> any landings late this week or over the weekend: we're shortening the
> soft code freeze this cycle to reduce confusion and friction, but that
> means we don't have a buffer between the first merge and shipping the
> 64.0b1 builds.
> 
> 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
> 
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Pascal Chevrel
Staff Project Manager - Firefox Nightly
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