Planning for M5: June 23, 2014 [RDP2]

[Stephen F Northover]

P45 bugs can simply be retargeted.  The rest must go through the 
"intergalactic" process which I will not describe here.

Essentially, Darth Vader is the release engineer and you need to 
apologize to him in person ...

Steve

On 2014-05-23 1:47 PM, Lisa Selle wrote:
> Steve can you clarify the process for various stages for retargeting 
> bugs to a later release?
>
> On 5/23/2014 1:15 PM, Stephen F Northover wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The next milestone M5, June 23, 2014 [RDP2], is an important one. 
>> Essentially, we are shipping FX for 8u20 after this.  There is a week 
>> before the final FX ZBB date which is July 1, 2014, but we should not 
>> be touching any code during this week.  After July 1 ZBB, we are 
>> stopping all development on FX 8u20 and starting on 8u40.
>>
>> Here is the plan for M5:
>>
>> May 26-30: Fix P123, fix or move P45 to 8u40
>> June 2-5: Fix P123, zero P45 targeted to 8u20
>> June 9-13: Fix P123, defer bugs that won't make it
>> June 16-20: Code freeze, ramp down rules, fix doc bugs
>>
>> During the week June 16-20, the usual milestone rules will be in 
>> effect and we are likely to be quite ruthless about any code 
>> changes.  We will likely only accept fixes for P12 critical bugs / 
>> regressions.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for their hard work,
>>
>> Steve and Kevin
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