Releases/Firefox 3.1b2

« Release Schedule

Tracking document for the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. See also:

• Build Activities
• QA Activities
• Release Rapid Response

Who

• Overall lead: beltzner
• Dev lead: beltzner
• Build lead: ??
• QA lead: tchung
• Web lead: beltzner

Development Work Remaining

• finish checkins, spot regressions & polish for beta
  • this is taking longer than expected due to tree-troubles
  • need to finish the remaining Firefox 3.1 and Gecko 1.9.1 blockers for b2

Release Tracking & Schedule

step	date	status
tree closed / frozen	November 4th 11:59pm PDT
tag for build	est. November 10
en-US builds generated	'est. November 10
l10n builds generated (using these changesets)	est. November 11
QA tests results	est. November 20
release notes, first run pages on www-trunk.stage.m.c	est. November 19
all-beta download page on www-trunk.stage.m.c	est. November 19
QA tests website changes on trunk	est. November 20
release & announce phase
website changes pushed to www.stage.m.c	est. November 21
release notes & first run pages pushed live	est. November 21
builds pushed to mirrors	est. November 21
QA tests bouncer links on www.stage	est. November 21
QA verifies updates on releasetest channel (really a bouncer test), and web pages	est. November 21
all-beta download page pushed live	est. November 21
QA verifies bouncer links	est. November 21
build enables updates on beta channel	est. November 21
QA verifies updates on beta channel	est. November 21
release announced	est. November 21