Releases/Firefox 3.1b3

« Release Schedule

Tracking document for the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 3. See also:

• Build Activities
• QA Activities
• Release Rapid Response

Who

• Overall lead: beltzner
• Dev lead: beltzner
• Build lead: nthomas
• QA lead: tchung
• Web lead: beltzner

Code Schedule / Development Work Remaining

• String freeze is January 1st, 11:59pm PDT (happy new year)
• Code freeze: January 25th, 11:59pm PDT March 3rd, 11:59pm PDT
• QA Start: March 5th, 9:00am PDT
• Release March 12th, 2:00pm PDT

Release Tracking & Schedule

step	date	status
tree closed / frozen for slushy freeze	March 3rd, 11am PDT	done
tag mozilla-1.9.1 for build	March 4th, 9:00pm PDT changeset: df865af82400	ongoing
en-US builds generated	+1 day from tag date
l10n builds generated	+1 day from en-US builds date
QA tests results	start when en-US builds available
release notes, first run pages on www-trunk.stage.m.c
all-beta download page on www-trunk.stage.m.c
QA tests website changes on trunk
all web changes on authstage.m.c
release & announce phase
release notes & first run pages pushed live	+7 days from QA start
builds pushed to mirrors	+7 days from QA start
QA tests bouncer links on www.stage	+7 days from QA start
QA verifies updates on releasetest channel (really a bouncer test), and web pages	+7 days from QA start
all-beta download page pushed live	+7 days from QA start
QA verifies bouncer links	+7 days from QA start
build enables updates on beta channel	+7 days from QA start
QA verifies updates on beta channel	+7 days from QA start
release announced	+7 days from QA start