<div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="2">Hello,<br><br></font></div><font size="2">This is a reminder that <b>Soft Code Freeze for Nightly 59 starts (this week) on Jan 11th, 2018</b>. It will end on Jan 22nd, 2018. <br><br>We have been using the soft code freeze milestone since Fx55 to help minimize disruptions to Nightly quality and to increase the likelihood of shipping a high quality build to beta channel users post merge.<br><br></font></div><p style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dos and Don’ts during the <span class="gmail-il">soft</span> <span class="gmail-il">code</span> <span class="gmail-il">freeze</span>:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Do:</span></font></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Be ready to backout patches that cause crash spikes, new crashes, severe regressions</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Monitor new regressions and escalate merge blockers<br></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Support release management by prioritizing fixing of merge blockers</span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Do Not:</span></font></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Land a risky patch or a large patch a week before Merge day</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Land new features (that affects the current nightly version) a week before Merge day</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in Nightly cycle</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's merge readiness<br></span></font></p></li></ul><p><font size="2">Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns.<br></font></p><font size="2">Thanks,<br>Release management team</font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><br><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p></div>