1734341 - DevTools Release Tasks - Cycle 95

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, task)

Description

[Hubert Boma Manilla (:bomsy)]

DevTools Release Tasks - Release 95

Soft Freeze / Merge Date: 2021-10-28 / 2021-11-01 (from the Release Management Calendar)
More details about any of those tasks can be found at: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools/release.html

Anytime during the release:

• ✅ outdated backward compatibility code removed (doc, searchfox)
• ✅ outdated telemetry probes removed (bz query)
  -> There were no telemetry probes

Close to the end of the release

• ✅ smoke test for remote debugging against release channel (doc)
• ✅ smoke test for remote debugging against the same version (same doc)

Marionette:

• ✅ close to the end of release (~1 week), update Marionette release notes on MDN (example for release 91)
  -> Release Note PR https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/9989
• ✅ right after the release, send a mail to the dev-webdriver mailing list

See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t8pR_lcTkjZjX1ddOf6tyvPY8dtE519Vlu8wXX58x_E for detailed explanations about Marionette tasks, or contact :whimboo / :jdescottes for help

Nice to have:

• ✅ Update MDN data for the Compatibility panel (follow devtools/shared/compatibility/README.md)
• ✅ Generate webidl-pure-allowlist.js and webidl-deprecated-list.js
  -> Files not modified