Firefox 3 Beta 4 starts baking tonight
At today’s Firefox 3 / Gecko 1.9 meeting we reviewed the remaining number of P1 and P2 blockers on our lists, and decided that we would go ahead with tonight’s Firefox 3 Beta 4 code freeze tonight at 11:59pm PST and then bake nightly builds for a few days before handing off the code to the Build and Quality Assurance teams.
During the baking period, all Firefox 3/ Gecko 1.9 component owners have been asked to triage their blocker nomination and blocking bug lists by Friday noon PST in order to determine:
- which bugs, if any, require a beta release vehicle
- which bugs, if any, need to block the final release of Firefox 3
Mike Connor has posted criteria to be used when assigning priorities to blocking bugs. If possible, bug owners should add an estimate of the time required and precieved difficulty of fixing a bug.
Tree management after tonight’s freeze
After tonight’s freeze we’ll be using the same process we used for the last beta. The tree will be closed to bake, and during that time we would appreciate your help in regression spotting and fixing. The only bugs that can land during this baking period are those marked with the “approval1.9b4+” flag.
Please note that if you believe a bug should block the release of Firefox 3 Beta 4, please make sure it is either marked or nominated as a P1 blocker and set the target milestone to “Firefox 3 beta 4″ or “mozilla1.9beta4″. We are currently frozen for localization work, so no new strings will be accepted at this time. You may wish to mark bugs with the following keywords:
- “relnote” will nominate that bug for entry in the Firefox 3 Beta 4 release notes
- “late-compat” will indicate that the bug might affect add-on compatibility
- “dev-doc-needed” will indicate that developer documentation is required
After this Friday, we will have more information about the delivery schedule for this beta. Look for announcements here and on the mozilla.dev.planning group.