Releases/Thunderbird 3.0b2

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Tracking document for the release of Thunderbird 3.0b2

Who

  • Overall lead: clarkbw
  • Development / Web pages / Release notes lead:
  • Build lead: gozer
  • QA lead: _Tsk_
  • l10n lead: sipaq

What

Late l10n tracker

Release Tracking & Schedule

step start date est. duration end date status
planning meeting 2009-02-?? 1h 2009-02-??
develop release notes bug 477097 2009-02-10 concurrent through posting date 2009-02-17 completed
string freeze

tinderbox updated & blogged.

2009-02-12 23:59 PDT 2h 2009-02-12 23:59 PDT completed
testday(s) for new features 2009-02-20, Friday, 20th Feb 2009 - 2009-02-20 23:59 PDT completed
code freeze / tree closed for baking 2009-02-19 23:59 PDT 5 days (b1 was 6, a3 was 10 days) 2009-02-24 completed
update shipped-locales with locales to include in the build bug 479162 2009-02-19 - 2009-02-23 completed
code hand-off to build and en-US pull date/rev

date:
comm-central rev: 4b85ed8f77b9
mozilla-central rev: a4093e9930cf
dom-inspector rev: 5a93979aeccc
cvs timestamp: 23:59 PDT
(mozilla-central and comm-central will be branched COMM_20090224_RELBRANCH)

2009-02-17 4h 2009-02-18 completed
locales pull date/rev
heads up to QA testers - 2009-02-17 completed
Get addons.mozilla.org updated with 3.0b2 and add 3.0b3pre bug 479117 (Clone previous fixed bugs) 2009-02-18 - 2009-02-18 completed
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). 2009-02-18 - 2009-02-18 completed
Ensure in-tree extensions have correct version numbers bug 479290 2009-02-19 - 2009-02-21 completed
RCs built (all en-US builds/items) ftp server - build2 2009-02-18 2009-02-18 complete
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) 2009-02-19 - 2009-02-19 completed
QA tests RC builds
-bug 477222 bugs found during testing
-[http:// bugs found since pull]
2009-02-19 7 days 2009-02-25 completed
heads up to MoCo IT for push requirement (push of files to stage/mirrors/bouncer) bug 479182 2008-02-18 - 2009-02-18 completed
QA & release driver approve release to mirrors 2009-02-26 - 2009-02-26 completed
Build pushes download files to mirrors 2009-02-26 - 2009-02-26 completed
download page ready on staging site 2009-02-26 - 2009-02-26 completed
QA tests staged website changes (text, links etc) 2009-02-26 - 2009-02-26 completed
releasenotes, firstrun pages, early_releases, beta pages live on mozillamessaging.com 2009-02-26 - 2009-02-26 completed
QA download links 2009-02-26 - 2009-02-26 completed
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
2009-02-26 - 2009-02-26 completed
(?) post-release testday for new features -
post-mortem meeting 2009-03-04 1/2 hour 2009-03-04 planned