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== Stopping automatic background updates == | == Stopping automatic background updates == | ||
If you think that a lot of people are going to be impacted by a regression, ask releng to stop automatic update. | If you think that a lot of people are going to be impacted by a regression, ask releng or relman to stop automatic update. | ||
Blocking automatic updates will not prevent new users to install Firefox Nightly from mozilla.org but it will mitigate greatly the impact on our existing user base. | Blocking automatic updates will not prevent new users to install Firefox Nightly from mozilla.org but it will mitigate greatly the impact on our existing user base. | ||
We can ask for automatic updates to be stopped for a specific OS. | We can ask releng for automatic updates to be stopped for a specific OS and potentially set up a fallback update mechanism to the last good known builds. | ||
Most of the time, it is Relman that stops update via Balrog, it stops updates for all OSes. | |||
Most of the major regressions are reported immediately via our @FirefoxNightly Twitter account followers, usually when more than 2 people report a similar regression there is a high chance that it will be serious and stopping automatic updates should be done rapidly. | Most of the major regressions are reported immediately via our @FirefoxNightly Twitter account followers, usually when more than 2 people report a similar regression there is a high chance that it will be serious and stopping automatic updates should be done rapidly. | ||
== Asking for a back out of the patch and new nightlies == | == Asking for a back out of the patch and new nightlies == | ||