Release Management/Aurora Landing Process

About Aurora

Goal: Aurora is a channel between the nightly builds from mozilla-central and beta versions from mozilla-beta; as such its status is roughly "experimental". It is marketed as "Developer Edition". This page describes the various steps done by the release team during this cycle.

The current aurora will be Firefox 54.

The Aurora repo: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/

More info about the Aurora:

• Download
• Desktop aurora current release notes
• Mobile aurora current release notes

What should land on mozilla-aurora: See the Uplift rules

The associated flags:

approval-mozilla-aurora: ?, +, -

tracking-firefox54: ?, +, -

status-firefox54: ?, unaffected, wontfix, affected, checkin-pending, fixed, verified

Aurora Triage Queries

Please note that the tracking flags follow the release, meaning that once aurora is merged to beta, the tracking and status flags remain during the beta cycle.

• Aurora Uplift requests
• Tracking request for Aurora
• Tracked but unresolved for Aurora

Aurora Timeline and Activities

A few days before the merge day

• Write the release notes
• Ask for review of the release notes
• Make sure we have the copy for any whatsnew pages in the localization team's hands. Talk with wbowden, jdouglas, :Pike and :flod. Make sure there's a bug for whatsnew work, and track it.

Merge day

• Check with releng to disable aurora updates. This used to happen automatically but as of 2016 we should check on #releaseduty
• Start to move uplift requests and tracking requests to beta. This may get a little tricky, just make sure to note when the merge happened and when particular patches/uplifts landed on which channel.

Aurora update day

• Once QA has signed off the release (usually later in release week, on Friday) send the aurora update email to release-drivers
• Mark release notes as public
• In product-details, update firefoxDetails.class.php and mobileDetails.class.php (do not touch the history files)
  • instructions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Release_Notes_and_Product_Details#Product_Details

Weekly

Review aurora queries

• for potential uplifts
• to review uplift requests
• for potential tracking request
• to follow up on approved uplifts that have not landed
• Keep track of the tracked bugs without assigned developers

Week 4

• Keep track of the tracked bugs without fix

Merge day

TODO

Sample E-mails

Enable aurora updates

Subject: Please enable Aurora updates

Now that we've received QA sign off on both Desktop and Mobile FF{{AURORA_VERSION}}.0a2 builds, please go ahead with enabling updates.

<name>
Firefox Release Manager