<div dir="ltr"><div>Just a reminder that this is now less than a week away. Please be mindful of any large/risky patches targeting 61 as time is running low to land them before the soft freeze begins.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ryan<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Ryan VanderMeulen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rvandermeulen@mozilla.com" target="_blank">rvandermeulen@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">Hi all,<br><br>On April 26th, we will be merging Firefox 61 from mozilla-central to beta for<br>the first time. In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late<br>nightly and the early Developer Edition builds and to ensure that we can roll<br>out Beta 61 to a wider audience with confidence, we'd like to ask that any<br>risky changes be avoided from April 26th until after the version bump to 62 on<br>May 7th.<br><br>Some reminders for during the soft code freeze:<br>Do:<br>- Be ready to backout patches that cause crash spikes, new crashes,<br> severe regressions<br>- Monitor new regressions and escalate merge blockers<br>- Support release management by prioritizing fixing of merge blockers<br><br>Do Not:<br>- Land a risky patch or a large patch<br>- Land new features (that affects the current nightly version) — be<br> mindful that code behind NIGHTLY_BUILD or RELEASE_OR_BETA ifdefs can lead<br> to unexpected CI results<br>- Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in Nightly cycle<br>- Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's merge<br> readiness<br><br>Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Release Management Team<br></div>
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