Release Management/Merge Documentation: Difference between revisions

* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Template:BETA_VERSION&action=edit BETA_VERSION]

* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Template:RELEASE_VERSION&action=edit RELEASE_VERSION]

* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Template:NextReleaseDate&action=edit NextReleaseDate]

** Which causes these to auto-update (with the magic of math!)

** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Template:FIREFOX_SHIP_DATE&action=edit FIREFOX_SHIP_DATE] (the next ship date)

** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Template:FIREFOX_MERGE_DATE&action=edit FIREFOX_MERGE_DATE] (the next ship date)

== Calculating the current Firefox release # and next release date ==

The expression reads <pre>floor(Firefox 23 + ((current time - Firefox 23 release date) / 6 weeks))</pre>. This expression counts the number of full 6 week increments since Firefox 23 and adds the total to 23 to give the current release number. Similarly, we can calculate the next release date with <pre>{{#time: Y-m-d | @{{#expr: (3628800 - (({{#time: U | now}} - {{#time: U | 6 Aug 2013}}) mod 3628800)) + {{#time: U | now}}}}}}</pre>. In this case we calculate the time since the Firefox 23 release, take the remainder from dividing by 6 weeks, and subtract that from the current time. This results in the number of days until the next release. Add that to the current time to produce the next release date.

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