826825 - Remove mn, sw during beta-release migration for Firefox 18

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Requests, defect)

Description

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Cloning for FF18

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #811788 +++

We're keeping mn and sw in beta for Firefox 17, please remove those from l10n-changesets and shipped-locales.

Comment 1

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

This is normally filed by Axel. We should post-mortem why this was missed for FF18.

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

From the previous bug "That just leaves l10n-changesets when rail and I land them manually in buildbot-configs."

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

(In reply to Alex Keybl [:akeybl] from comment #1)
> This is normally filed by Axel. We should post-mortem why this was missed
> for FF18.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811054 would help us not forget this IMO. If the process was always "grab (accurate) files from dashboard", we'd never need to remember to remove locales.

Comment 4

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/650ead2dacc4

Comment 5

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Sorry for the trouble.

As for why, the reasons are likely a mix of:

- it's manual work that nobody but me does
- holidays
- I've been sucked into gaia v1, stepping in for stas, and neglected much of desktop all around this cycle. We're having a bunch of locales in not-as-good-as-possible shape in 18, see also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.l10n/cd_7YbPZlfk

One thing I notice after the fact is that the "l10n freeze for release" was the regular beta counted from the start of the cycle, not from the end of the cycle? Anyway, I kinda paged out the desktop release during christmas, as I wouldn't take changes to it no more, and did so more agressively than what was healthy.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #5)
> Sorry for the trouble.
> 
> As for why, the reasons are likely a mix of:
> 
> - it's manual work that nobody but me does

Which is why the dashboard should be serving correct contents - then nobody has to remember to do it.