Release Notes

The release notes are managed through the Nucleus interface available on https://nucleus.mozilla.org/.

Release notes are using the tracking flag relnote-firefox:. By default, the value "?" is going to be set and some information requested (wording proposed, documentation/URL, etc). Release management checks this flag regularly.

Aurora and Beta Cycles

For the first aurora release, from the nucleus interface:

Create a new aurora release
Copy the requirements and description from the previous aurora release
Make sure that is_public is disabled
Ask for review to the various relevant teams (the list is available in the Release Team Calendar)
Enable is_public on the aurora release day

For the first beta release, from the nucleus interface:

Copy the aurora release (is_public is going to be disabled)
Update the title
Update the date
Ask for review (cf aurora)
Enable is_public on the beta release day

During the aurora/beta cycle:

Scan the relnote-firefox "?" flags
Try to find some important unresolved bugs
Check if some features have not been disabled

Release

Same step as Beta
Once the notes have been signed off and the release is live, is_public has to be turn on.

Product Details

live in svn

How to update

Note that in the history classes, there's a stability release section for .1s and a release section for .0s.

Need to checkout libs/product-details:
     svn co svn+ssh://'youremail'@svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details product-details
### in product-details 
 
% ls
README                       json                         regionDetails.class.php
export_json.php              localeDetails.class.php      regions
firefoxDetails.class.php     mobileDetails.class.php      thunderbirdBuildDetails.php
firefoxDetails.class.php~    mobileDetails.class.php~     thunderbirdDetails.class.php
history                      productDetails.class.php

% vim LATEST_FIREFOX_DEVEL_VERSION.php
# update to most recent version
-    const LATEST_FIREFOX_DEVEL_VERSION = '33.0b4';
+    const LATEST_FIREFOX_DEVEL_VERSION = '33.0b5';

% vim LATEST_FIREFOX_RELEASED_DEVEL_VERSION.php
# update to most recent version
-    const LATEST_FIREFOX_RELEASED_DEVEL_VERSION = '33.0b4';
+    const LATEST_FIREFOX_RELEASED_DEVEL_VERSION = '33.0b5';

% vim mobile_beta_version.php
# bump the const
-const beta_version_ = '33.0b2';
+const beta_version_ = '33.0b4';

% vim history/firefoxHistory.class.php
# add the newest version
                 '11.0b3' => '2012-02-17',
+                '11.0b4' => '2012-02-24',

% vim history/mobileHistory.class.php 
# add the newest version
                 '11.0b3' => '2012-02-17',
+                '11.0b4' => '2012-02-24',

% svn status
M       history/mobileHistory.class.php
M       history/firefoxHistory.class.php
M       firefoxDetails.class.php
M       mobileDetails.class.php

% ./export_json.php 
% svn status
M       history/mobileHistory.class.php
M       history/firefoxHistory.class.php
M       firefoxDetails.class.php
M       mobileDetails.class.php
M       json/firefox_primary_builds.json
M       json/firefox_history_development_releases.json
M       json/mobile_details.json
M       json/mobile_history_development_releases.json
M       json/firefox_versions.json
M       json/firefox_beta_builds.json

% svn ci -m "11.0b4 released"
Sending        firefoxDetails.class.php
Sending        history/firefoxHistory.class.php
Sending        history/mobileHistory.class.php
Sending        json/firefox_beta_builds.json
Sending        json/firefox_history_development_releases.json
Sending        json/firefox_primary_builds.json
Sending        json/firefox_versions.json
Sending        json/mobile_details.json
Sending        json/mobile_history_development_releases.json
Sending        mobileDetails.class.php
Transmitting file data ..........
Committed revision 102190.
# grab this commit rev

### Go back to mozilla.com 


% svn propedit svn:externals tags/stage/includes
# paste in the new commit rev from the libs/product-details push & save
Set new value for property 'svn:externals' on 'tags/stage/includes'

% svn propedit svn:externals tags/production/includes
# paste in the new commit rev from the libs/product-details push & save
Set new value for property 'svn:externals' on 'tags/production/includes'

# probably want to update before trying to commit these
% svn up

% svn diff

Property changes on: tags/stage/includes
___________________________________________________________________
Modified: svn:externals
   - product-details -r101880 http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details
certs http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/certs
   + product-details -r102190 http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details
certs http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/certs


Property changes on: tags/production/includes
___________________________________________________________________
Modified: svn:externals
   - product-details -r101880 http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details
certs http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/certs
   + product-details -r102190 http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details
certs http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/certs



% svn ci -m "11.0b4 released"                        
Sending        tags/production/includes
Sending        tags/stage/includes
Committed revision 102191.

Troubleshooting

If you get an error like "svn: Entry '/Users/synergy/Dropbox/Mozilla/relman/mozilla-europe.org/trunk/sv-SE' has unexpectedly changed special status" when trying to commit, do a revert `svn revert -R .` then `svn up` and try again, if that still fails - re-pull the repo.

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