Hi, With Firefox 98 in Release Candidate phase this week, we are nearing the end of the Nightly 99 cycle
Please note: Due to a Wellness Day on Monday, March 7 - for this release cycle the Merge Day will be on Tuesday, March 8. In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late Nightly and to ensure that we can roll out Beta 99 to a wider audience with confidence, we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from Thursday, March 3 until after the version bump to 100 on March 8. Also, please be advised that the string freeze for Firefox 99 begins Friday, March 4. In order to ensure that our localizers have adequate time to translate strings, please make sure that all string changes have landed by EOD Friday. Some reminders for the soft code freeze period: Do: - Be ready to back out 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 affect 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 the 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, Donal Meehan, Firefox Release Manager -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CAP5bjnwdy_yD%3DvyWpKjEt3KK5J-hgPRxjWfxhnkS-NvXgWPpAQ%40mail.gmail.com.
