Release Management/Release Day
Release Day
Previous day
- Send instructions to r-d to push live to the release channel (before Firefox version 29, it was done the same day):
Subject: Please push Firefox Desktop 149 build #X to mirrors
- QA should sign-off channel updates
- Release notes signed off by PMM (Product Marketing Manager)
Release day
- Upload mobile APKs on Google play
- Push product-details update for 149 (bedrock instructions below won't work if you haven't)
- Steps for bedrock push on release or beta
- Go to the URL :http://bedrockadm.private.phx1.mozilla.com/chief/bedrock.productdetails (requires MPT-VPN)
- Follow the steps under "product-details" push on mana (but using "master" as ref, not a commmit hash):
- Output looks similar to :
Updating! revision: master We have the new code! Code has been updated locally! All done!
- Wait for http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html and http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/ to show the right version (and clicking to try and download the right binary)
- Send instructions to r-d to enable update to 25%:
Please push Firefox Desktop 149 (build #X) snippets to the release channel - 25% update rate
- QA sign-off on updates for Desktop
- QA sign-off on updates for Mobile
- Let PMM (Laura/EJ) know they can push blog posts and start communicating to Press
- Send announcement of new release to announce@lists.mozilla.org similar to
Subject: A new version of Firefox is now available The new version of Firefox is now available as a free download for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux from http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/.
As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the newest version of Firefox for the latest features and fixes.
The release notes for this release are available at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/notes. Firefox is also now available for Android. The associated release notes are available at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/notes. -{YOUR NAME} Release Manager at Mozilla
Notes: As long as date is correct, can prepare most of the relnotes night before - morning of, basically it's good to do ahead of time
- Once an ESR is released, you can push
Subject: Firefox ESR 60 Released
To: "enterprise@mozilla.org List" <enterprise@mozilla.org>
Security-driven (but not exploit-driven) Firefox ESR 60 is now available for download at [1]. Release notes for Firefox 60 can be found at [2]. Associated security advisories will be posted at [3] once available.
As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the newest version of Firefox ESR for the latest stability and security fixes.
-{YOUR NAME}
Mozilla Release Manager
[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html
[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/60/releasenotes/
[3] https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html
The day after
- Send instructions to r-d to disable updates:
Please disable updates to Firefox 30.0