Ever wondered what the release process of Thunderbird looks like? What tools we use for builds? Wayne and Daniel demystify our build and release process with a thorough presentation, live demos, and some answers to your questions.

📥 PDF of Wayne & Daniel's Presentation: https://blog.thunderbird.net/files/2024/06/Build-Release-How-Its-Done.pdf

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Heather introduces Daniel & Wayne 01:43 Some helpful terminology 03:33 Uplifting new bugs 07:39 Writing release notes 09:50 Release cadence (but it's changing soon) 12:13 Approving patches 15:53 ShipIt and the "Promote" Process 22:43 Merge Day 24:24 Monitoring releases for stuff that goes wrong 26:51 Some common complications 31:24 Balrog: controlling who gets updates 34:45 Demo - uplifting a bug 38:51 Uplift versus Backport? 39:48 Install telemetry 40:53 Coordinating releases with add-on devs 43:17 How can the community help? 45:45 Roland's SUMO highlights