Gran Paradiso M9 code freeze date is on the move!
As discussed in this week’s Firefox 3 and Gecko 1.9 status meetings, the code freeze date for Gran Paradiso M9 will be moving out from next Wednesday due to the number of outstanding blockers.
The new code freeze date will be decided at next Wednesday’s Gecko 1.9 status meeting, and it will be set somewhere between October 24th and October 31st depending on our blocker fix rates. In the meantime, the tree remains at threat level “orange” (always see the tinderbox for the current checkin rules) where only patches on blocking bugs and those with driver approval are allowed to be checked in. All contributors and drivers should be limiting risk, and testing their patches for memory leaks and regressions before committing them, then watching the tree afterwards to see the effects.
Once the new code freeze date is finalized, it will be announced on Mozilla Developer News and in the mozilla.developer.planning newsgroups. At that time we’ll also announce the date when the tree will move to threat level “red”, where all checkins must be given explicit endgame driver approval in order to limit risk of regression.