1805151 - DevTools Release Tasks - Cycle 110

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, task, P3)

Description

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Soft Freeze / Merge Date: 2023-01-12 / 2023-01-16 (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• [✅] outdated backward compatibility code removed (doc, searchfox)
• [✅] outdated telemetry probes removed (bz query)
• [✅] in devtools-qa bugs, needinfo the triage owner (or the assignee if they are a team member) to test the bug in beta channel (bz query)
• [✅] Update MDN data for the Compatibility panel follow devtools/shared/compatibility/README.md
• [✅] Check that the browsers available in the Compatibility Panel settings are up to date (example: version number for Firefox Nightly should be 110)

Close to the end of the release

• [✅] smoke test for remote debugging against version 109 (doc)
• [✅] smoke test for remote debugging against the same version (version 110) (same doc)
• [✅] check xpcshell debugging (doc)

Marionette and BiDi:

• [✅] close to the end of release (~1 week), based on the list of bugs fixed during the release, update Marionette release notes on MDN for 109: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/109#webdriver_conformance_marionette.
• [✅] right after the release of Firefox 109, send a mail to the dev-webdriver mailing list.

For reference: full list of Marionette and BiDi bugs fixed during the release.

Template suggestion for the Marionette email (adjust wording if relevant):

Firefox 109 has just been released, containing updates for our WebDriver (BiDi, Marionette) support.

You can find all the details in the change log for web developers:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/109#webdriver_conformance_webdriver_bidi_marionette

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:

• [ ] Generate webidl-pure-allowlist.js and webidl-deprecated-list.js (doc)