Thunderbird/Release Driving/Rapid Release Activities/Final Release Procedure

Website Update

• svn copy the previous versions release notes to the new location e.g.

svn copy 11.0/releasenotes/ 12.0/releasenotes/

• Update the header information for the release (e.g. in 12.0/releasenotes/index.html)
• Update/copy the documentation from the beta release notes to the main release notes index.html.
• Generate the buglist.html file:
  • Ensure you have bztools installed for python.
  • Get the latest version of fixed_bugs.py (in the drivertools repo)
  • Run it:

python fixed_bugs.py --app thunderbird --version 12 --milestone --html --no_auth > output.txt

• • Take the output and replace between the existing tbody tags in buglist.html.
  • Update the header information in the file.
• Save and commit the files, check the results on staging.