We took a big step towards truly hands-off releases by doing a (very early) Firefox 2.0.0.7 RC1 with the Buildbot-enabled release automation system. There are still some kinks to work out, but overall things are looking great.
The elapsed machine time from "code freeze" to "ready …
read moreWe've been using the release automation scripts, aka Bootstrap, for the past several releases. We've hit some bumps but overall we've improved quality as we've been pushing changes into the scripts instead of having to document and remember to re-check a large list of "gotchas" whenever we run into problems …
read moreFor Firefox and Thunderbird, we assign one build/release engineer per release (as part of the "release team" for that version). I've been the release engineer for 3 of the Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.x cycles and 2 of the BonEcho alphas, so (I hope!) that I am starting …
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