The last merge of autoland to central for 87 has now happened, so the soft
freeze is over, and development for 88 is open.
Cheers,
Julien
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 4:28 PM Julien Cristau wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With Firefox 86 RC shipping soon, we are nearing the end of the Nightly 87
> cycle.
>
> In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late Nightly and
> to ensure that we can roll out Beta 87 to a wider audience with confidence
> next week, we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from Thursday
> February 18 until after the version bump to 88 on February 22.
>
> 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,
> Julien
> --
> Firefox Release Manager
>
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