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Tracking document for the release of Thunderbird 3.0b3
- Remaining Blockers
- Meta Release Tracking Bug bug 496146
Who
- Overall lead: dmose
- Web pages lead: XXX
- Release notes lead: XXX
- Build lead: gozer
- QA lead: _Tsk_
- l10n lead: sipaq
What
- Thunderbird 3.0b3
- Use Official Branding
- L10n builds:
Late l10n tracker
Release Tracking & Schedule
| step | start date | est. duration | end date | status |
| planning meeting | 1h | |||
| develop release notes bug 477097 | concurrent through posting date | |||
| string freeze
tinderbox updated & blogged. |
2h | |||
| testday(s) for new features | - | |||
| code freeze / tree closed for baking | ||||
| update shipped-locales with locales to include in the build bug 479162 | - | |||
| code hand-off to build and en-US pull date/rev
date: |
4h | |||
| locales pull date/rev | ||||
| heads up to QA testers | - | |||
| Get addons.mozilla.org updated with 3.0b2 and add 3.0b3pre bug 479117 (Clone previous fixed bugs) | - | |||
| Get crash-stats.m.c updated with 3.0b2 and add 3.0b3pre bug 479123 (note in future this may become a Webtools/Socorro bug). | - | |||
| Ensure in-tree extensions have correct version numbers bug 479290 | - | |||
| RCs built (all en-US builds/items) ftp server - build2 | ||||
| RCs built (all non en-US builds/items) ftp server - build2 | ||||
| Check builds for symbols (crashme!) | ||||
| website changes on trunk | - | |||
| Announce RC builds ready for testing (newsgroups etc) | - | |||
| QA tests RC builds -bug 477222 bugs found during testing -[http:// bugs found since pull] |
7 days | |||
| heads up to MoCo IT for push requirement (push of files to stage/mirrors/bouncer) bug 479182 | - | |||
| QA & release driver approve release to mirrors | - | |||
| Build pushes download files to mirrors | - | |||
| download page ready on staging site | - | |||
| QA tests staged website changes (text, links etc) | - | |||
| releasenotes, firstrun pages, early_releases, beta pages live on mozillamessaging.com | - | |||
| QA download links | - | |||
| release announced, and check the results - [1] mozilla.dev.planning, mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird, mozilla.support.thunderbird, mozilla.announce.prelease - About:mozilla - blog see moderator info |
- | |||
| (?) post-release testday for new features | - | |||
| post-mortem meeting | 1/2 hour |