Releases/Thunderbird 3.0b3
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Tracking document for the release of Thunderbird 3.0b3
- Remaining Blockers
- Meta Release Tracking Bug bug 496146
Who
- Overall lead: dmose
- Web pages lead: rebron
- Release notes lead: rebron
- Build lead: gozer
- QA lead: _Tsk_
- l10n lead: sipaq
What
- Thunderbird 3.0b3
- Use Official Branding
- L10n builds:
Late l10n tracker
Release Tracking & Schedule
| step | start date | est. duration | end date | status |
| planning meeting | Tuesday, 2009-07-14 drivers meeting | 20m | 2009-07-14 | completed |
| heads up to MoCo IT for push requirement (push of files to stage/mirrors/bouncer) bug 504145 | Tuesday 2009-07-14 | - | 2009-07-14 | completed |
| develop release notes bug 504182 | 2009-07-14 | concurrent through posting date | completed | |
| firm string/code freeze (update tinderbox & blog) | Tuesday 2009-07-14 | 2h | completed | |
| Checkin AUS builder update | Wednesday, 2009-07-15 | completed | ||
| Ensure in-tree extensions (Venkman, DOMi) have correct maxVersion numbers | 2009-07-15 | - | completed | |
| code hand-off to build and en-US pull date/rev
date: Wednesday, 2009-07-15 |
2009-07-15 | - | completed | |
| Cut relbranch | 2009-07-15 | - | 2009-07-15 | completed |
| Land asuth's JS patch from bug 497355 on mozilla-central relbranch | 2009-07-15 | - | 2009-07-15 | completed |
| Get crash-stats.m.c updated with 3.0b3 and add 3.0b4pre bug 504526 (note in future this may become a Webtools/Socorro bug). | 2009-07-15 | - | completed | |
| Get addons.mozilla.org updated with 3.0b3 and add 3.0b4pre bug 504528 (Clone previous fixed bugs) | 2009-07-15 | - | completed | |
| l10-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze | Thursday, 2009-07-16 23:59 Pacific | |
completed | |
| update shipped-locales with locales to include in the build bug 504786 | 2009-07-17 | - | completed | |
| heads up to QA testers | 2009-07-16 | - | 2009-07-16 | completed |
| RCs built (all en-US builds/items) ftp server - build1 | 2009-07-15 | - | 2009-07-15 | completed |
| Check builds for symbols (crashme!) | 2009-07-15 | - | 2009-07-15 | completed |
| Announce RC builds ready for testing (newsgroups etc) | 2009-07-15 | - | 2009-07-15 | completed |
| RCs built (all non en-US builds/items) ftp server - build1 | 2009-07-17 | 1d | 2009-07-17 | completed |
| Announce all locale RC builds ready for testing (newsgroups etc) | 2009-07-17 | - | 2009-07-17 | completed |
| QA tests RC builds -bug 489128 bugs found during testing |
Thursday, 2009-07-16 | - | 2009-07-21 | completed |
| Get code signed bug 504145 | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | completed |
| make decision about uk build if necessary | Monday, 2009-07-20 | - | completed; uk owner verified in email that the correct rev was chosen | |
| website changes on trunk | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | completed | |
| File Bug for setting up website redirects (live.momo.com start, what's new etc) | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | completed |
| QA & release driver approve release to mirrors | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | completed |
| Build pushes download files to mirrors | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | completed |
| download page ready on staging site | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | completed | |
| QA tests staged website changes (text, links etc) | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | completed | |
| Build pushes content from stage/ to production/ so that releasenotes, firstrun pages, early_releases, beta pages go live on mozillamessaging.com | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | completed | |
| QA download links and checks release notes, start page, what's new pages options from within TB. | Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | completed | |
| release announced, and check the results - [1] mozilla.dev.planning, mozilla.dev.l10n, mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird, mozilla.support.thunderbird, mozilla.announce.prelease - About:mozilla - blog see moderator info |
Tuesday, 2009-07-21 | - | completed | |
| post-mortem meeting | 1/2 hour |
