If nothing else, can we at least add a notes to each branch description on 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/B2G_Landing 
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/B2G_Landing> which describes what 
the latest/final tagged version is?

That might be a simple and flexible solution?


> On 13 Jul 2015, at 12:40 am, Josh Cheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Christiane,
> 
> Thanks for the proposal and I actually like the idea of adding FC/CC 
> (Release) tag. However, it might still hard for partners to determine patches 
> on the tagging because we still allow partner blockers to land after CC. We 
> might need another FINAL_RELEASE tag after we fix all partner blockers.
> 
> Anyway I think it wouldn’t hurt to add FC/CC tag for our internal planned 
> date for purpose as you mentioned: security advisories, release notes, other 
> technical editing, management decisions.
> 
> Also CC Mahi(New RM) and Dylan if they have different opinion.
> 
> Cheers,
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Josh Cheng
> Engineering Project Manager, Firefox OS
> Mozilla Corporation
> ✉ [email protected]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
>> Christiane Ruetten <[email protected]> 於 2015年7月10日 下午10:02 寫道:
>> 
>> I propose to introduce a specifically-named hg tag for B2G release
>> versions that is created at or around release day, for example
>> B2G_2_2_RELEASE.
>> 
>> A consistent release tag can serve as anchor for security advisories,
>> release notes, other technical editing, management decisions, and
>> communication evolving around releases. It can also serve as reference
>> for partners when it comes to updates and spotting backports.
>> 
>> The current situation is that there are no specific release tags, just
>> an ambivalent collection of *_MERGEDAY tags ( see
>> http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g37_v2_2/ ) which continues to
>> accumulate over the maintenance cycle of a branch. This makes it hard to
>> impossible to reliably determine which state our technical writing is
>> referring to, especially when it comes to security advisories and what
>> bug they cover per release.
>> 
>> Even though Firefox has a different release model, their
>> FIREFOX_BETA_*_END tags are equivalent to release tags.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Christiane Ruetten
>> Mobile Malware Specialist
>> Firefox OS Security
>> 
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