Releases/Thunderbird 3.0b2
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Tracking document for the release of Thunderbird 3.0b2
Who
- Overall lead: clarkbw
- Development / Web pages / Release notes lead:
- Build lead: gozer
- QA lead: _Tsk_
- l10n lead: sipaq
What
- Thunderbird 3.0b2
- Use Official Branding
- L10n builds:
Late l10n tracker
Release Tracking & Schedule
| step | start date | est. duration | end date | status |
| planning meeting | 2008-11-?? | 1h | 2008-11-?? | |
| develop release notes bug ???? | 2008-11-16 | concurrent through posting date | 2008-12-01 | |
| string freeze
tinderbox updated & blogged. |
2008-11-13 23:59 PDT | 2h | 2008-11-13 23:59 PDT | |
| testday(s) for new features | 2008-02-13, Friday, 13th Feb 2009 | - | ||
| code freeze / tree closed for baking | 2008-11-25 23:59 PDT | 6 days (a3 was 10 days) | 2008-12-01 | |
| update shipped-locales with locales to include in the build bug ???? | 2008-12-01 | - | 2008-12-01 | |
| code hand-off to build and en-US pull date/rev
date: 2008-12-01
|
2008-12-01 | 4h | 2008-12-01 | |
| locales pull date/rev | 23:59 PDT | 2008-12-01 | ||
| heads up to QA testers | - | 2008-11-27 | ||
| Get addons.mozilla.org updated with 3.0b2 bug ???? | 2008-11-30 | - | 2008-12-01 | |
| Get crash-stats.m.c updated with 3.0b2 bug ???? (note in future this may become a Webtools/Socorro bug). | 2008-12-01 | - | 2008-12-01 | (done at time of a3 release) |
| Ensure in-tree extensions have correct version numbers (DOMI has blanket rs=sdwilsh for updating versions to current trunk [1]) | 2008-12-03 | - | ||
| RCs built (all en-US builds/items) ftp server | 2008-12-01 | 2008-12-01 | ||
| RCs built (all non en-US builds/items) ftp server | 2008-12-01 | 2008-12-02 | ||
| Check builds for symbols (crashme!) | 2008-12-02 | 2008-12-02 | ||
| website changes on trunk | - | |||
| Announce RC builds ready for testing (newsgroups etc) | 2008-12-02 | - | 2008-12-02 | |
| QA tests RC builds -bug ???? bugs found during testing -[http:// bugs found since pull] |
2008-12-02 | x days | 2008-12-08 | |
| heads up to MoCo IT for push requirement (push of files to stage/mirrors/bouncer) bug ???? | - | |||
| QA & release driver approve release to mirrors | - | |||
| Build pushes download files to mirrors | - | |||
| download page ready on staging site | - | |||
| QA tests staged website changes (text, links etc) | 2008-12-08 | - | 2008-12-09 | |
| releasenotes, firstrun pages, early_releases, beta pages live on mozillamessaging.com | 2008-12-09 | - | 2008-12-09 | |
| QA download links | 2008-12-09 | - | 2008-12-09 | |
| release announced, and check the results - mozilla.dev.planning, mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird, mozilla.support.thunderbird, mozilla.dev.prerelease - about:mozilla - blog see moderator info |
2008-12-09 | - | 2008-12-09 | |
| Disable blocking-thunderbird3.0b2 flags (just using blocking-thunderbird3 flags after this release). | - | |||
| (?) post-release testday for new features | - | |||
| post-mortem meeting | - |