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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Soft code freeze for Firefox 86 starts January 21
(Pascal Chevrel)


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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:09:20 +0100
From: Pascal Chevrel <pche...@mozilla.com>
To: firefox-dev <firef...@mozilla.org>, dev-platform
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Subject: Re: Soft code freeze for Firefox 86 starts January 21
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Hi all,

The last merge from autoland to mozilla-central before the version bump has
now happened, so the soft freeze for 86 is over, and development for
Firefox 87 is underway.

Cheers,
Pascal

Le 19/01/2021 ? 10:25, Pascal Chevrel a ?crit?:
>
> Hi all,
>
> With Firefox 85 RC shipping soon, we are nearing the end of the
> Nightly 86 cycle.
>
> In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late Nightly
> and to ensure that we can roll out Beta 86 to a wider audience with
> confidence, we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from
> Thursday January 21 until after the version bump to 87 on January 25.
>
> Some reminders for the soft code freeze period:
>
> Do:
> - Be ready to back out 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 affect 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 the
> 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,
> Pascal & the Release Management team
>
> --
> Pascal Chevrel
> Firefox Release Manager
> + Firefox Nightly community management

--
Pascal Chevrel
Firefox Release Manager
+ Firefox Nightly community management

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