Releases/Firefox 3.5b4

« Release Schedule

Tracking document for the release of Firefox 3.5 Beta 4. See also:

• Build Activities
• QA Activities
• Release Rapid Response

Who

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

Code Schedule / Development Work Remaining

• String freeze: Thursday, March 19th at 23:59 PDT / 2009-03-20 06:59 UTC
• Code freeze: delayed until P1 blockers are complete
  • • remaining work: unresolved P1 blockers | need to land on 1.9.1
• QA Start: Friday, April 17th, morning PDT / afternoon UTC
• Release: April 22-24

Release Tracking & Schedule

step	date	status
tree closed / frozen for slushy freeze	April 23rd, 11am PDT	done
tag mozilla-1.9.1 for build changeset: 5b61f163f2fd	April 23rd, 6:44pm PDT	done
build1: linux & mac builds generated available here	April 23rd, 9:03pm PDT	done
build1: signed win32 builds generated available here	April 24th, 4:45pm PDT	done
QA tests results	April 26th <thead> </thead> <tbody> </tbody> done release notes, first run pages on www.mozilla.com trunk April 27th, 1:30am PDT done - all-beta download page on www-trunk.stage.m.c April 27th, 4:00pm PDT done - QA tests website changes on trunk April 27th, 1:00pm PDT done - all web changes on authstage.m.c April 27th, 5:00pm PDT done - colspan=3 style="background:#efefef" | release & announce phase - release notes & first run pages pushed live April 27th, 2:30pm PDT done - builds pushed to mirrors April 27th, 12:10 PDT done - QA tests bouncer links on staging server April 27th, 6:00pm PDT done - QA verifies updates on releasetest channel (really a bouncer test), and web pages April 27th, 6:15pm PDT done - all-beta download page pushed live April 27th, 6:30pm PDT done - QA verifies bouncer links April 27th, 6:30pm PDT done - build enables updates on beta channel April 27th, 6:30pm PDT done - QA verifies updates on beta channel April 27th, 7:15pm PDT done - release announced April 27th, 7:30pm PDT done - }