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Tracking document for the release of Thunderbird 3.0b2
- Remaining Blockers
- Meta Release Tracking Bug bug 477103
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 | 2009-02-?? | 1h | 2009-02-?? | |
| develop release notes bug 477097 | 2009-02-10 | concurrent through posting date | 2009-02-17 | in progress |
| string freeze
tinderbox updated & blogged. |
2009-02-12 23:59 PDT | 2h | 2009-02-12 23:59 PDT | |
| testday(s) for new features | 2008-02-13, Friday, 13th Feb 2009 | - | need plan | |
| code freeze / tree closed for baking | 2009-02-19 23:59 PDT | 5 days (b1 was 6, a3 was 10 days) | 2009-02-24 | |
| update shipped-locales with locales to include in the build bug ???? | - | need bug | ||
| code hand-off to build and en-US pull date/rev
date:
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| locales pull date/rev | ||||
| heads up to QA testers | - | |||
| Get addons.mozilla.org updated with 3.0b2 bug ???? | - | need bug | ||
| Get crash-stats.m.c updated with 3.0b2 bug ???? (note in future this may become a Webtools/Socorro bug). | - | need bug | ||
| Ensure in-tree extensions have correct version numbers (DOMI has blanket rs=sdwilsh for updating versions to current trunk [1]) | - | |||
| RCs built (all en-US builds/items) ftp server | ||||
| RCs built (all non en-US builds/items) ftp server | ||||
| Check builds for symbols (crashme!) | ||||
| website changes on trunk | - | |||
| Announce RC builds ready for testing (newsgroups etc) | - | |||
| QA tests RC builds -bug 477222 bugs found during testing -[http:// bugs found since pull] |
(b1 was 6 days) | need bugs | ||
| heads up to MoCo IT for push requirement (push of files to stage/mirrors/bouncer) bug ???? | - | need 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) | - | |||
| releasenotes, firstrun pages, early_releases, beta pages live on mozillamessaging.com | - | |||
| QA download links | - | |||
| 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 |
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| Disable blocking-thunderbird3.0b2 flags (just using blocking-thunderbird3 flags after this release). | - | |||
| (?) post-release testday for new features | - | |||
| post-mortem meeting | - |