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Drivers & Leads (RC1 & through to final)

• Standard8 is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• _Tsk_ is QA
• sipaq is L10N (for builds) co-ordinator
• rebron is Website & Publicity co-ordinator
  • Pascal is Website L10N co-ordinator

Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 1

Dates & Blocking

• Approvals
  • Start: 2009-10-06
  • Only blocking & approved patches allowed.
  • Please nominate potential blockers with the approval-thunderbird3 flag

• Freeze Dates - Updated ( All dates use time of 23:59 PST )
  • String freeze date: 2009-09-29
  • Creation of comm-1.9.1 branch: 2009-10-22
  • Code Freeze date: 2009-10-30
  • l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze date: 2009-11-02
  • Target Build Ship date: 2009-11-03

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0 - blocking
  • TB 3.0 - wanted

• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers

• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0 - blocking
  • TB 3.0 - wanted

Details

• Release TB builds (full QA etc)
• Test Beta -> RC update, first test channel, then beta channel
  • We will also need to test 2.x -> 3 (_Tsk_)

• Do we need an alternate start page for RC builds?
  • Don't think so - but we need to be able to distinguish RC1/RC2 (_Tsk_)

Thunderbird 3 Final

Gecko 1.9.1 version

• 1.9.1.4 ideal base.
• Keep an eye on
  • bug 485118
  • bug 521878

Release

• Website & L10N
• Servers
• Statistics

Major updates

Firefox are doing:

• Manual update only initially - user has to request Tools -> Update.
• Automatic updates - at the first security release if happy to do so.

Post Release

• Stabilise language pack versions - port bug 505491

Plans

Branching

Tracking Bug: bug 522211

• HgPollers ready (split for trunk + branch detection) bug 489352
• New hg repo
  • Base branch tag: COMM_1_9_1_BASE
  • Tag and clone hg repo - IT needs to do the clone (file bug in mozilla.org/Server Operations) bug 522460
  • mxr - new repo search required bug 522681
• crash-stats links update bug 510918
• client.py - bug 522445
• Note: bug 504143 was m-c branch for 1.9.2 tracking bug.

Plans to be made

• Point Releases
  • Approvals/Blocking process post release
• How to do firedrill/maintenance updates:
  • How to do the release