Tree Rules

For comm-central tree rules, see this page.

mozilla-central - Trunk (Firefox 10)

All changes must meet the general checkin rules. You must check the tree before pushing, and watch the tree for failures after pushing.
Please ask in #developers on IRC if you have questions.

All changes must meet the general checkin rules, except you do not need to watch the tree after pushing.
This tree is merged into mozilla-central approximately daily.
Please read Tree Rules/Inbound for commit procedures and the list of sheriffs.
Ask in #developers on IRC if you have any questions.

APPROVAL REQUIRED

All changes must meet the general checkin rules. You must check the tree before pushing, and watch the tree for failures after pushing.
Patches must have the approval-mozilla-aurora+ flag in Bugzilla. To request approval, set the approval-mozilla-aurora? flag on the patch you wish to check in.
Patches nominated for aurora should:
- have tests, or a strong statement of what can be done in the absence of tests.
- have landed in mozilla-central to bake on the nightly channel for a few days.
- have a comment in Bugzilla assessing performance impact, risk, and reasons the patch is needed on aurora.
Approval requests will be processed by release drivers in the weekly Firefox/Aurora meetings.

APPROVAL REQUIRED

All changes must meet the general checkin rules. You must check the tree before pushing, and watch the tree for failures after pushing.
Patches must have the approval-mozilla-beta+ flag in Bugzilla. To request approval, set the approval-mozilla-beta? flag on the patch you wish to check in.
Patches nominated for beta should:
- have tests, or a strong statement of what can be done in the absence of tests.
- have landed in mozilla-central to bake on the nightly channel for a few days.
- have a comment in Bugzilla assessing performance impact, risk, and reasons the patch is needed on beta.
- not change binary interfaces or otherwise break add-on compatibility.
Approval requests will be processed by release drivers in the weekly Firefox/Beta meetings.

APPROVAL REQUIRED

Patches must have the approval-mozilla-release+ flag in Bugzilla. To request approval, set the approval-mozilla-release? flag on the patch you wish to check in.
In the normal development process, no changes will land on mozilla-release except regular merges from mozilla-beta every six weeks.
Changes to the release branch are limited to urgent "chemspills" like zero-day security vulnerabilities and other unplanned emergencies. Any changes to this branch will be directly overseen by release drivers.

APPROVAL REQUIRED

patches must have been checked in and "baked" on mozilla-central,
patches must have approval1.9.2.x+ (for whatever value of x is relevant).
Set the "status1.9.2" flag to the relevant "fixed .x" value when the patch has been checked into the branch

Patches nominated for approval1.9.2.x should:

Please see #developers or today's Sheriff if you have questions.

The branch approval queue is being monitored by branch drivers, all of whom are usually available on IRC.