<div dir="ltr"><div>The version bump to 61 has landed, central thawed and is open for business.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Julien<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Julien Cristau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcristau@mozilla.com" target="_blank">jcristau@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid337" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Hi all,</span></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid85" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid543" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-z76zst1z122z28m6jrfrz85zz69zj">O</span><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">n March 1st, we will be merging Firefox 60 from mozilla-central to beta for the first time.  In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of nightly and the early Developer Edition builds and </span><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-z76zst1z122z28m6jrfrz85zz69zj">to en</span><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">sure </span><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-z76zst1z122z28m6jrfrz85zz69zj">that </span><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">we can roll out beta60 with confidence, we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from March 1st until the version bump to 61 on March 12.</span></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid406" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid423" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Dos and Don'ts during the soft code freeze:</span></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid408" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Do:</span></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid409" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><ul class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-list-bullet2"><li><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Be ready to backout patches that cause crash spikes, new crashes, severe regressions</span></li></ul></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid410" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><ul class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-list-bullet2"><li><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Monitor new regressions and escalate merge blockers</span></li></ul></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid411" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><ul class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-list-bullet2"><li><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Support release management by prioritizing fixing of merge blockers</span></li></ul></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid412" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Do Not:</span></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid569" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><ul class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-list-bullet2"><li><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Land a risky patch or a large patch</span></li></ul></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid570" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><ul class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-list-bullet2"><li><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Land new features (that affects the current nightly version)</span><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-z76zst1z122z28m6jrfrz85zz69zj"> — be mindful that code behind NIGHTLY_BUILD or RELEASE_OR_BETA ifdefs can lead to unexpected CI results</span></li></ul></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid571" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><ul class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-list-bullet2"><li><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in Nightly cycle</span></li></ul></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid572" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><ul class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-list-bullet2"><li><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's merge readiness</span></li></ul></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid444" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid417" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns.</span></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid445" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid418" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Thanks,</span></div><div id="m_5856376477620007238gmail-magicdomid419" class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-ace-line"><span class="m_5856376477620007238gmail-author-a-jz65zz73zhotiroz74zj49rqz65z">Release management team</span></div></div>
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