Every 10 months or so we will release a new Firefox ESR build. In turn this means we need to create a new mozmill-esrN branch. A few weeks following the release we will also drop support for the old ESR release. In turn this means we need to deprecate the old mozmill-esrN branch. Follow the instructions below to create a new branch and deprecate the old branch.
Creating a new ESR branch
Create a new ESR branch out of the mozilla-release branch.
Warning: Only perform this action after the
mozilla-beta -> mozilla-release merge has been performed.$ hg pull $ hg up -C mozilla-release $ hg branch mozilla-esr%VERSION% $ hg commit -m "Create mozilla-esr%VERSION% branch" $ hg push --new-branch
Note:
%VERSION% in this case refers to the version number of the new release (ex. 10)Deprecating an old ESR branch
Once an ESR release no longer becomes supported (usually after 1 or 2 point releases on the new version), we need to deprecate the old ESR branch.
Warning: Only perform this action once support for a given ESR release has been dropped.
$ hg pull $ hg up -C mozilla-esr%VERSION% $ hg commit --close-branch -m "Close mozilla-esr%VERSION% branch" $ hg push
Note:
%VERSION% in this case refers to the version number of the old release (ex. 10)