507967 - Stop offering major update to 3.0.12 users

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

We should stop offering our major update to users of Firefox 3.0.12 a few hours before releasing 3.0.13 (let's say, midnight tonight or so). The rationale for this is basically that as soon as word hits we're shipping 3.0.13 tomorrow, many users will do a "Check for Updates..." to get that release, but will instead be offered 3.5.1. That's not the best user experience for 3.0.x users.

I asked Nick and he said this wouldn't be too hard to do for this release, but we should make it part of our regular release process as well. I can file a bug for that, if needed.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

 # cltbld@aus2-staging
 cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging/
 rsync -a 20090721-Firefox-3.0.12-3.5.1-MU/ 20090802-Firefox-3.0.12-3.5.1-MU-null/
 cd 20090802-Firefox-3.0.12-3.5.1-MU-null/
 find . -depth -type d -iregex '.*/beta$' -exec rm -rf {} \;
 for f in `find . -type f`; do rm $f; touch $f; done
Checked that there 370 empty snippets, to match 370 useful ones in the source dir, release channel only.
 ~/bin/backupsnip 20090802-Firefox-3.0.12-3.5.1-MU-null
 ~/bin/pushsnip   20090802-Firefox-3.0.12-3.5.1-MU-null