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** Normal release process | ** Normal release process | ||
== Option 1 - "Release audience | == Option 1 - "Release audience testers" == | ||
* '''Details''' | *'''Details''' | ||
** 1 week before release when we have the final mozilla-beta build (and before the mozilla-release build) we push the final mozilla-beta build to some percentage of the release audience to get ~15 million Firefox 9 users for a week before the full / unthrolled / normal release on December 20th. We would *not* update the users on the final mozilla-beta to the mozilla-release build if no issues require a rebuild. We could choose to throttle / slow roll on December 20th as well. | **1 week before release when we have the final mozilla-beta build (and before the mozilla-release build) we push the final mozilla-beta build to some percentage of the release audience to get ~15 million Firefox 9 users for a week before the full / unthrolled / normal release on December 20th. We would *not* update the users on the final mozilla-beta to the mozilla-release build if no issues require a rebuild. We could choose to throttle / slow roll on December 20th as well. | ||
* '''Official ship''' | *'''Official ship''' | ||
** December 20th | **December 20th | ||
*'''Benefits''' | *'''Benefits''' | ||
**Hopefully will prevent a December 20th chemspill due to finding issues early | **Hopefully will prevent a December 20th chemspill due to finding issues early | ||
**Still have time to rebuild and hit a December 20th date / no "slip" | **Still have time to rebuild and hit a December 20th date / no "slip" | ||
**Press team likes that we'd release on the 20th | **Press team likes that we'd release on the 20th | ||
*'''Downsides''' | *'''Downsides''' | ||
**Confusion if Firefox 9 is "released" for some percentage of the population | **Confusion if Firefox 9 is "released" for some percentage of the population | ||
**Using users as "testers" that have not opted into testing | **Using users as "testers" that have not opted into testing | ||
*** Note this isn't a major concern as we think the final beta is done / of release quality | ***Note this isn't a major concern as we think the final beta is done / of release quality | ||
*** This is a horrible messaging proposition. If people come to us confused about why they got moved up, we say something along the lines of "we decided to make you a guinea pig without your permission". -- Cww | ***This is a horrible messaging proposition. If people come to us confused about why they got moved up, we say something along the lines of "we decided to make you a guinea pig without your permission". -- Cww | ||
**May be mechanically difficult as far as builds go (RelEng to comment) | **May be mechanically difficult as far as builds go (RelEng to comment) | ||
**May be mechanical considerations (crashes get grouped in a beta product, different crash ids in crash-stats are treated differently, increases QA's test matrix, etc) | **May be mechanical considerations (crashes get grouped in a beta product, different crash ids in crash-stats are treated differently, increases QA's test matrix, etc) | ||
**Users on the mozilla-beta Firefox 9 will not be eligible for the Firefox 10 patch/partial update | **Users on the mozilla-beta Firefox 9 will not be eligible for the Firefox 10 patch/partial update | ||
**Some fraction of users have almost nil 3rd party support. | **Some fraction of users have almost nil 3rd party support. (We're not officially released so 3rd parties have no incentive to update their software for a week) -- Cww. | ||
== Option 2 - "Slow release ramp" == | == Option 2 - "Slow release ramp" == | ||