In an effort to make Beta builds more representative of release
candidate builds and avoid functionality appearing and then disappearing
during the Beta cycle, the Release Management team will be retiring the
“early” and “late” beta periods (Beta cycle weeks 1–2 and 3–4,
respectively).
To prepare, we ask that teams:
1.
Audit your code’s use of the EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER macro.
2.
Replace your code’s use of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER with:
1.
NIGHTLY_BUILD, if the functionality is ready for QA and user
testing but not release
2.
or (NIGHTLY_BUILD || MOZ_DEV_EDITION), if the functionality
needs more user testing beyond Nightly but isn’t ready for
release. Warning: having different functionality in DevEdition
and Beta will complicate testing. You should consider when (or
if) you will eventually ship this functionality.
3.
or enable by default, if the functionality is ready to ride the
trains to Release.
Searchfox search:
https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/search?q=EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER&case=true
<https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/search?q=EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER&case=true>
Here’s a meta bug about early beta that teams can link their bugs to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2051729
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2051729>
*Deadline: August 17, when Nightly 155 merges to Beta*
In Beta 155+, EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER will be redefined as NIGHTLY_BUILD.
If a team doesn’t audit their use of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER, we don’t
expect anything to break, but the functionality will no longer be
enabled in early Beta 155+. Later, the EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER macro will
be removed, search-and-replaced with NIGHTLY_BUILD.
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