The Gecko version has been bumped to 66 now on mozilla-central, so the soft freeze is now over.
Thanks, Ryan On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:13 AM Ryan VanderMeulen < rvandermeu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > On December 3, we will be merging Firefox 65 from mozilla-central to beta > for the first time. In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out > of late Nightly and the early Developer Edition builds and to ensure that > we can roll out Beta 65 to a wider audience with confidence, we'd like to > ask that any risky changes be avoided from December 3 until after the > version bump to 66 on December 10. Please also be mindful of any landings > late this week or over the weekend as there will be very little buffer > between the first merge and shipping the 65.0b1 builds, especially with > All-Hands travel. > > Some reminders for the soft code freeze period: > > Do: > - Be ready to backout patches that cause crash spikes, new crashes, > severe regressions > - Monitor new regressions and escalate merge blockers > - Support release management by prioritizing fixing of merge blockers > > Do Not: > - Land a risky patch or a large patch > - Land new features (that affects the current Nightly version) — be > mindful that code behind NIGHTLY_BUILD or RELEASE_OR_BETA ifdefs can > lead to unexpected CI results > - Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in Nightly cycle > - Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's merge > readiness > > Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns. > > Thanks, > > Release Management Team > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
