Hi,

The merge of 78 to beta is in progress, new changes landing now will target
79; please consider the soft code freeze lifted.

Thanks,
Julien

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 2:15 PM Julien Cristau <jcris...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> With Firefox 77 RC shipping soon, we are nearing the end of the Nightly 78
> cycle.
>
> In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late Nightly and
> to ensure that we can roll out Beta 78 to a wider audience with confidence
> next week, we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from Thursday
> May 28 until after the version bump to 79 on June 1st.  This also means
> that by mid-week, feature work targeting 78 should be complete and ready to
> ride the trains.
>
> Some reminders for the soft code freeze period:
>
> Do:
> - Be ready to back out patches that cause crash spikes, new crashes,
> severe regressions
> - Monitor new regressions and escalate merge blockers
> - Support release management by prioritizing fixing of merge blockers
>
> Do Not:
> - Land a risky patch or a large patch
> - Land new features (that affect the current Nightly version) — be mindful
> that code behind NIGHTLY_BUILD or RELEASE_OR_BETA ifdefs can lead to
> unexpected CI results
> - Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in the Nightly
> cycle
> - Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's merge
> readiness
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns.
>
> Thanks,
> Julien & the Release Management team
>
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