Release Management/Aurora Landing Process

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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". 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:

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

aurora

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?o5=notequals&list_id=10099921&v11=unaffected&j10=OR&o14=notequals&f13=OP&o2=equals&j16=OR&f29=CP&v5=wontfix&f12=CP&j4=OR&f14=cf_status_firefox54&o17=notequals&o20=notequals&v2=%2B&f21=CP&known_name=Tracking54%2B-Remaining&f10=OP&f19=OP&f1=OP&f20=cf_status_firefox54&j13=OR&f8=cf_status_firefox54&f0=OP&j19=OR&o11=notequals&f18=CP&&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&f5=cf_status_firefox54&f17=cf_status_firefox54&v8=fixed&v14=verified&f6=CP&f7=OP&o8=notequals&f16=OP 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

Aurora update day

  • Once QA has signed off the release, send the aurora update email
  • In product-details, update firefoxDetails.class.php and mobileDetails.class.php (do not touch the history files)

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
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