Hi all, The last merge from autoland to mozilla-central before the version bump has now happened, so the soft freeze for 85 is over, and development for Firefox 86 is underway.
Cheers, Julien On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 5:34 PM Julien Cristau <jcris...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > With Firefox 84 RC week upon us, we are nearing the end of the Nightly 85 > cycle. > > In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late Nightly and > to ensure that we can roll out Beta 84 to a wider audience with confidence, > we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from Thursday December > 10 until after the version bump to 86 on December 14. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
