1659135 - Remove esr68 from cross-channel

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Localization Infrastructure and Tools :: General, task)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

We only have one week of Axel's time left, and he's the only person with knowledge on how to remove branches from cross-channel. Dropping esr68 now gives us a bit of time to breath.

I've already given an heads-up to RelMan (Ryan) on Slack: with this, we're declaring EOL for l10n on esr68 projects. We can still ship dot releases for Fennec if necessary, using the existing changesets. But we won't be able to localize anything new on that branch.

I think this is a necessary trade-off in these times.

Comment 1

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

I see no problem whatsoever with making this change. Fennec is already EOL with the Fenix release migration underway.

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

This is now done. Here's the process in detail.

Regenerate the content without config changes

https://hg.mozilla.org/users/axel_mozilla.com/gecko-strings-quarantine/rev/9741ec4a2da6d0eb035edb44903f82fd4ab6000f

1. Remove everything in the output/en-US folder with hg rm *, keeping only the .hg folder

2. Regenerate content for both mozilla-central and comm-central

python -m initial.cli.force ~/src/comm-central/ ~/src/output/
python -m initial.cli.force ~/src/mozilla-central/ ~/src/output/

3. Commit without metadata references

Drop mozilla-esr68

https://hg.mozilla.org/users/axel_mozilla.com/gecko-strings-quarantine/rev/b2c94a158e98f564bf0cbe85a4b107f6aa5299dd

1. Remove everything in the output/en-US folder with hg rm *, keeping only the .hg folder

2. Remove esr68 from from initial/cli/_config.py

3. Regenerate content for both mozilla-central and comm-central

python -m initial.cli.force ~/src/mozilla-central/ ~/src/output/
python -m initial.cli.force ~/src/comm-central/ ~/src/output/

4. Inspect changes, add them hg addremove

5. Get the metadata for mozilla-central

hg log -r 'limit(reverse(desc("mozilla-central")))' -v|grep X-C|sed -e's/-Converted//g'

Commit with one commit message, followed by an empty line, and then the metadata. Make sure to drop the references for mozilla-esr68 from the metadata.

Drop comm-esr68

https://hg.mozilla.org/users/axel_mozilla.com/gecko-strings-quarantine/rev/05d2d780df3b745617cd24acfc1aa010ce838afe

1. Remove everything in the output/en-US folder with hg rm *, keeping only the .hg folder

2. Remove comm-esr68 from from initial/cli/_config.py

3. Regenerate content for both mozilla-central and comm-central

python -m initial.cli.force ~/src/mozilla-central/ ~/src/output/
python -m initial.cli.force ~/src/comm-central/ ~/src/output/

4. Inspect changes, add them hg addremove

5. Get the metadata for comm-central

hg log -r 'limit(reverse(desc("comm-central")))' -v|grep X-C|sed -e's/-Converted//g'

Commit with one commit message, followed by an empty line, and then the metadata. Make sure to drop the references for comm-esr68 from the metadata.

Config for cross-channel code updated here
https://hg.mozilla.org/users/axel_mozilla.com/cross-channel-experimental/rev/0be59f582ee00f88d74b87652544a8cf2be33593