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Today's Aurora meeting is replaced by a Firefox 5 release candidate signoff meeting

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Christian Legnitto

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Jun 14, 2011, 1:30:12 PM6/14/11
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We're going to repurpose tomorrow's Aurora meeting and instead focus on the end of beta for Firefox 5.

Things we will cover:

* We need to declare beta "done", pull the source to the release repo, do one additional build, and hand it off to QA. This meeting will determine if we are "done" enough to do this (based on the information we have now)

* Current status of various product focus areas (stability, add-on compatibility, l10n, etc)

* Explicit signoff from teams declaring Firefox 5 beta 6 our release candidate so that we can publicize it as such

* Possible release mitigation strategies if we feel there are still too many unknowns (such as throttling updates, releasing only on mozilla.com, etc)

We will track everything @ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_5/RC_Signoffs.

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Meeting Details:
* Tues June 14th, 2:00pm Pacific
* 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
* 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
* join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel
* Warp Core conf room in MV

Thanks,
Christian

pal-moz

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Jun 15, 2011, 12:25:34 AM6/15/11
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Firefox 5 beta 6 is listed under "Previous Releases", Release Date is
June 14.
but channel page(http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/) is not
updated/changed, still 5.0b5. (PDT/PST - 21:24, June 14)
when is the page updated/changed ?

Christian Legnitto

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Jun 15, 2011, 1:44:48 AM6/15/11
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Thanks, fixing it right now.

> _______________________________________________
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> dev-pl...@lists.mozilla.org
> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-planning

Steve Wendt

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Jun 15, 2011, 1:10:30 PM6/15/11
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On 6/14/2011 9:25 PM, pal-moz wrote:

> Firefox 5 beta 6 is listed under "Previous Releases", Release Date is
> June 14.
> but channel page(http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/) is not
> updated/changed, still 5.0b5. (PDT/PST - 21:24, June 14)

Speaking of which, are only final releases going to be in the obvious
places from now on?
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

It took me a while to figure out there were 5.0 beta releases, and
having to navigate a web page for it isn't so nice.

Daniel Holbert

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Jun 15, 2011, 1:33:07 PM6/15/11
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On 06/15/2011 10:10 AM, Steve Wendt wrote:
> Speaking of which, are only final releases going to be in the obvious
> places from now on?
> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
>
> It took me a while to figure out there were 5.0 beta releases, and having
> to navigate a web page for it isn't so nice.

You may find that the first two Google hits for "firefox beta" are handy.
;) I've included them below for convenience.

Beta versions are available here:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html

Additionally, this page just has a one-click beta download button:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/
and also has the more bleeding-edge Aurora builds available.

~Daniel

Steve Wendt

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Jun 15, 2011, 1:51:26 PM6/15/11
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On 6/15/2011 10:33 AM, Daniel Holbert wrote:

>> having to navigate a web page for it isn't so nice.
>

> Beta versions are available here:
> http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html
>
> Additionally, this page just has a one-click beta download button:
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

You have just reiterated what I already wrote. I have to hover over the
download links to figure out if there's anything different.

I sure hope this isn't going to be required for the final release; the
web pages are notoriously bad at handling contrib builds.

Robert Kaiser

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Jun 15, 2011, 2:40:08 PM6/15/11
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Steve Wendt schrieb:

> You have just reiterated what I already wrote. I have to hover over the
> download links to figure out if there's anything different.

Enable automated updates, that's our main channel of telling you that
something new is there and getting it to you in a secure and ongoing manner.

Robert Kaiser

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Note that any statements of mine - no matter how passionate - are never
meant to be offensive but very often as food for thought or possible
arguments that we as a community should think about. And most of the
time, I even appreciate irony and fun! :)

Steve Wendt

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Jun 15, 2011, 2:52:48 PM6/15/11
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On 6/15/2011 11:40 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote:

> Enable automated updates, that's our main channel of telling you that
> something new is there

That presumes I use Firefox as my daily browser, and that that is the
only reason I would care.

Karl Tomlinson

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Jun 16, 2011, 3:07:36 AM6/16/11
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Steve Wendt writes:

> Speaking of which, are only final releases going to be in the
> obvious places from now on?
> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

Not sure it counts as obvious, but I used
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

Robert Kaiser

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Jun 16, 2011, 12:37:15 PM6/16/11
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Steve Wendt schrieb:

Why that? We deliver automated updates to casual users as well, right?

Steve Wendt

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Jun 16, 2011, 1:39:48 PM6/16/11
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Thanks, Karl! It's a less filtered list, but that is what I was asking
for, wasn't it? :-)

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