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Drivers & Leads (RC1 & through to final)

• Standard8 is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• _Tsk_ is QA
• sipaq is L10N (for builds) co-ordinator
• rebron is Website & Publicity co-ordinator
  • Pascal is Website L10N co-ordinator

Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 1

Dates & Blocking

• Approvals
  • Start TBD
  • Only blocking & approved patches allowed.
  • Need to create flag - approval-thunderbird3

• Planned Freeze Dates - Updated ( All dates use time of 23:59 PST )
  • Slushy String freeze date: TBD
  • Slushy Code Freeze date: TBD
  • Firm String / Code freeze date: TBD
  • l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze date: TBD
  • Target Build Ship date: TBD

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0 - blocking
  • TB 3.0 - wanted

• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers

• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0 - blocking
  • TB 3.0 - wanted

Details

• Release TB builds (full QA etc)
• Test Beta -> RC update, first test channel, then beta channel

• Do we need an alternate start page for RC builds?

Thunderbird 3 Final

Release

• Website & L10N
• Servers
• Statistics

Major updates

Firefox are doing:

• Manual update only initially - user has to request Tools -> Update.
• Automatic updates - at the first security release if happy to do so.

Plans

Branching

• HgPollers ready (split for trunk + branch detection) bug 489352
• client.py - any changes?
• mxr - new repo search required.
• Approvals covered under RC 1 above.

Plans to be made

• Point Releases
  • Approvals/Blocking process post release
• How to do firedrill/maintenance updates:
  • • How to do the release