Firefox:1.5.0.5:Schedule

Key dates

1.5.0.5 Schedule Deadlines

Development:

• Nominations and Approval Requests Deadline: Wednesday, June 14
• Code Freeze (Checkin Deadline): Friday, June 23 11:59 pm Pacific Time
• First Candidates Available: Monday, June 26
• Tentative Ship Dates: July 25 (Firefox), July 27 (Thunderbird)

QA:

• Bug Verifications: June 12 - July 18
• Smoketests June 26
• BFTs: June 26 - June 27 (Firefox), June 28 - June 30 (Thunderbird)
• Post to the QA blog for Community Testing - June 23
• RC1/Community Testing and Test Day (no active QA team participation): June 26 - June 30
• Focus/Exploratory Testing: July 5 - 7
• l10n + Update Testing: July 10 - 12 (Firefox), July 12 - 14 (Thunderbird)

Release:

• Candidate Builds: June 26
• Release Tagging: June 26 for RC1 (and any other RCs)
• l10n Packaging: June 26 - 27
• Update Patches/CJK Repackaging: July 5 - 7
• Notify Partners and Distributors of final RC: July 7 (Basil/Dveditz)
• Prep Security Notes and Notify Security Group: July 10 (Dveditz)
• Release Signing: July 12 - 19 (FF and TB)
• Release Prep and Ship: July 25 - 27 (FF and TB)