Releases/Firefox 9/Final Signoffs

This page will track declaring the latest mozilla-beta build as the final in this cycle and starting the build off of the mozilla-release repository.

Please note that issues found in the final moments of the beta period may still require us to rebuild before release

Focus Areas

Tracking Details

Release management is somewhat concerned about these:

• bug 657726
• bug 689217
• bug 708772
• bug 702217
• bug 702901
• bug 706808
• bug 704762
• bug 690187
• bug 703795

Stability

Current Status

• Conditional sign-off, but there are blind spots
  • bug 710818
  • bug 710757

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

• Socorro issues preventing us from looking at beta 5 crash numbers
  • bug 710818
  • bug 710757

QA

Current Status - Desktop

• Testing is complete and signed-off
• Updates on releasetest are complete and signed-off
• Making progress on bug fix verifications: 19 fixes remain, targeting EOD Friday (ie. won't block final beta)
• Have one more night of testing before final sign-off tomorrow morning

Outstanding Issues/Concerns - Desktop

• 4 / 28 [qa?] bugs have been responded -- this means 24 untested fixes are shipping in Firefox 9 (some security sensitive)
• Several known bugs not yet fixed -- any of these concerning?

Current Status - Mobile

• Mobile signed off 9.0b6 build-candidate 1 (December 14th).

Mobile Engineering

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

• What permissions are requested for market?
  • Need to verify bug 702183

Add-ons

Current Status

• 81% compatibility for top 95%
  • We expect a bit of a bump when we declare RC

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

• Bug 703795 tracking-firefox9? since about a month ago.

Security

Current Status

• looks good according to dveditz

Localization

Current Status

• Need sign-off for Polish localization, in order to include latest revision in release

Build Mechanics

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

• Need to make sure that the new snippets to enable what's new page are generated / work (bug 706488)

Web Content

Current Status

• Tracking Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702987

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

• WN page will be going out with Fx 9--is this all set up from Rel Eng side? (Yes, see bug 706488)
• Release Notes for GA, Beta, Aurora?
  • Christian is working on the release notes for GA

Services

Current Status

• clean up of error logs, 'unknown error' muffling
• minor bugfixes(5)
  • listed in ffx9 section: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Meetings/RapidRelease/2011-12-08
• QA, ops, eng approved

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

None.