Releases/Firefox 74: Difference between revisions

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Information and links to do with Firefox 74. This may be useful for Mozilla contributors actively working on the release. It is also a record for future reference.

About the 74 release

Release owner: Pascal Chevrel (:pascalc)
Corresponding ESR release: 68.6.0
Milestones document for the 74 cycle timeline from Nightly to release.
QA: Test Plan - PI requests - Feature priorities
* All experiments for 74
Postmortem notes, 2 weeks after the release.

Release checklists

Process docs

Off-train releases - Various ways to ship features that aren't in-tree.
Guidelines for relman: Uplift rules - Release tracking rules
Security: Sec Triage - Sec-approval -

Dates of 74 releases

74.0a1 Nightly

First released: 6 Jan 2020
Release notes

74 Beta

74.0b1 (dev ed and beta channels): 11 Feb 2020
74.0b6 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: 21 Feb 2020 Beta 5 is the last early beta. Beta 6 is post-early beta.
Release notes draft - staging - final

74.0 Release

Mar 2020
- desktop: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/
- fennec 68.6: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/android/68.6/releasenotes/

Queries

Mission Control crash dashboard: https://metrics.mozilla.com/~sguha/mz/missioncontrol/ex1/mc2/beta.html
Mission Control daily snapshots: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F9mHl1o3nocVbLXTz7x2KdmNiUpIRDJgN5TN2MmbtFA/edit?pli=1#gid=274778338
Crash-stats for 74.0a1 - 74.0b2 -
74 tracking:?
74 tracking:+
74: fixed in 74 cycle
Open bugs marked as affected for 74

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 It is also a record for future reference.
-==About the 70 release ==
+==About the 74 release ==
-* [[Release_Management/Release_owners|Release owner]]: Liz Henry (:lizzard)
+* [[Release_Management/Release_owners|Release owner]]: Pascal Chevrel (:pascalc)
 * Corresponding ESR release: 68.6.0
 * [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HQFtOPTZa2NlnPY6gO4svMxf3oKY8_SpYQZ7yt-Nc3I Milestones document] for the 74 cycle timeline from Nightly to release.
-* [[Releases/Firefox_74/Test_Plan|Test Plan]]: Details of testing from QA.
+* QA: [[Releases/Firefox_74/Test_Plan|Test Plan]] - [https://jira.mozilla.com/projects/PI/summary PI requests] - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zzd0384V9FZ0bWyU4QDofvU04vChEdKKak-1Dtro3Gs/edit#gid=125650106 Feature priorities]
-* [https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/firefox70-worry-list Working notes] - Informal working notes and a list of useful dashboards for release managers.
+* * All [https://experimenter.services.mozilla.com/?ordering=-latest_change&search=&status=&firefox_channel=&firefox_version=74.0&owner=&analysis_owner=&experiment_date_field= experiments for 74]
-* * All [https://experimenter.services.mozilla.com/?ordering=-latest_change&type=&status=&firefox_channel=&firefox_version=70.0&project=&owner= shield studies for 74]
 * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings#Post_Mortem_notes Postmortem] notes, 2 weeks after the release.
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 * [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1FGdCyMc6d5O6CX7hVxaEGaas1gEBmF7FR6VUoUIjLC8/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=117669334566079359152 ESR 68 checklists]
 * Blank [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kexb-hd8chGEN63zZKqkBSxREe7nR_A2Ai2OuehaBaM/edit#gid=221890705 checklist templates]
+* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ED4LAYqDXt3Mgwid1mCwFDMTyeElLptcm54SiDi-4XA/edit Beta simulation] doc
+==Process docs==
+* [[Release_Management/Process_coordination_for_handling_off-train_releases|Off-train releases]] - Various ways to ship features that aren't in-tree.
+* Guidelines for relman: [[Release_Management/Uplift_rules|Uplift rules]] - Release tracking rules
+* Security: [[Security/Firefox/Security_Bug_Triage_Process|Sec Triage]] - [[Security/Bug_Approval_Process|Sec-approval]] -
 ==Dates of 74 releases==
 ===74.0a1 Nightly===
-* First released: (Planned for 7 Jan 2020)
+* First released: 6 Jan 2020
 * [https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/74.0a1/releasenotes/ Release notes]
-===70 Beta===
+===74 Beta===
-* 74.0b1 dev ed release on aurora channel: 2020
+* 74.0b1 (dev ed and beta channels): 11 Feb 2020
-* 70.0b4 Beta release on beta channel: 2020
+* 74.0b6 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: 21 Feb 2020  Beta 5 is the last early beta. Beta 6 is post-early beta.
-* 70.0b5 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: 2020
 * Release notes [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1g94jQE8ksoDsrrkZnAy0DCfhmX1Iw9owKom1usXsuNM draft] - [https://www-dev.allizom.org/firefox/74.0beta/releasenotes staging] - [https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/74.0beta/releasenotes/ final]
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 ** desktop: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/
 ** fennec 68.6: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/android/68.6/releasenotes/
 ==Queries==
 * Mission Control crash dashboard: https://metrics.mozilla.com/~sguha/mz/missioncontrol/ex1/mc2/beta.html
 * Mission Control daily snapshots: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F9mHl1o3nocVbLXTz7x2KdmNiUpIRDJgN5TN2MmbtFA/edit?pli=1#gid=274778338
-* More queries TBD at start of Nightly 74
+* Crash-stats for [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrashers/?product=Firefox&version=74.0a1&days=1 74.0a1] - 74.0b2 -
+* [https://mzl.la/2MYWm95 74 tracking:?]
+* [https://mzl.la/36uKsvi 74 tracking:+]
+* [https://mzl.la/36uLuYc 74: fixed in 74 cycle]
+* Open bugs marked as [https://mzl.la/2txRbWE affected for 74]