Releases/Firefox 3.1b3

« Release Schedule

Tracking document for the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 3. See also:

• Build Activities
• QA Activities
• Release Rapid Response

Who

• Overall lead: beltzner
• Dev lead: beltzner
• Build lead: nthomas
• QA lead: tchung
• Web lead: beltzner

Code Schedule / Development Work Remaining

• String freeze is January 1st, 11:59pm PST (happy new year)
• Code freeze: January 25th, 11:59pm PST March 3rd, 11:59pm PST
• QA Start: March 5th, 9:00am PST
• Release March 12th, 2:00pm PDT

Release Tracking & Schedule

step	date	status
tree closed / frozen for slushy freeze	March 3rd, 11am PST	done
tag mozilla-1.9.1 for build changeset: df865af82400	March 4th, 9:00pm PST	done
build1: linux & mac builds generated available here	March 5th, 2am PST	done
build1: signed win32 builds generated available here	March 5th, 11am PST	done
update relbranch for respin changeset: 3d9704097cd8	March 5th, 12:45pm PST	done
build2: linux & mac builds generated available here	March 5th, 3:30pm PST	done
build2: signed win32 builds generated available here	March 6th, 1:30am PST	done
QA tests results	March 10th, 5:00pm PDT <thead> </thead> <tbody> </tbody> done release notes, first run pages on www-trunk.stage.m.c March 11th, 9am PDT done - all-beta download page on www-trunk.stage.m.c March 11th, 9am PDT done - QA tests website changes on trunk March 11th, 2:30pm PDT done - all web changes on authstage.m.c March 12th 7:30am PDT done - colspan=3 style="background:#efefef" | release & announce phase - release notes & first run pages pushed live March 12th, 7:30am PDT done - builds pushed to mirrors March 12th, 7:00am PDT done - QA tests bouncer links on www.stage March 12th, 11am PDT done - QA verifies updates on releasetest channel (really a bouncer test), and web pages March 12th, 11am PDT done - all-beta download page pushed live March 12th, 12:30pm PDT done - QA verifies bouncer links March 12th, 1:15pm PDT done - build enables updates on beta channel March 12th, 12:30pm PDT done - QA verifies updates on beta channel March 12th, 1:15pm PDT done - release announced March 12th, 1:30pm PDT done - }