Rebase alpha onto 149.0a1

⤵️ Rebase Alpha

Bookkeeping

  • Link this issue to the appropriate Release Prep issue.
  • Create "Firefox Release Review" issue for this version
    • NOTE: We have issues open through Firefox 153 so this can be skipped until we get to Firefox 154

Rebase

The step-by-step rebase process is detailed on the Rebase Process wiki page. Refer to it for detailed instructions on how to perform each step.

  • Rebase application-services

    • uniffi-rs
      • Prepare the rebase
        • Verify if application-services has updated it's uniffi-rs version else skip this step
        • Get the upstream tag
        • Freeze the current default branch
        • Create the target branch (X.XX.X)
      • Rebase
      • Merge
        • Perform a self-review
        • Build
        • File a merge request
      • Tag and update the repository
        • Tag vX.XX.X
        • Make X.XX.X the default branch
    • application-services
      • Prepare the rebase
        • Get the upstream tag
        • Freeze the current default branch
        • Create the target branch (XXX.X-TORBROWSER)
      • Do the rebase
        • Cherry-pick commits
        • Squash all fixup! commits
      • Merge
        • Perform a self-review
        • Build
        • File a merge request
      • Tag and update the repository
        • Tag vXXX.X-TORBROWSER-build1
        • Make XXX.X-TORBROWSER the default branch

  • Rebase Tor Browser

    • Prepare the rebase
    • Do the rebase [Part 1]
      • Create the target branch (tor-browser-XXX.0a1-YY.0-1)
      • Cherry-pick commits until tor-browser-(XXX - 1).0a1-YY.0-2-build1
      • Optional: If your first rebase, complex, or difficult, can do an MR here for feedback.
      • Freeze the current default branch
      • Cherry-pick remaining commits (rest of tor-browser-(XXX - 1)a1-YY.Y-2)
      • Merge
        • Perform a self-review (git range-diff)
        • Run linters
        • Build and test
          • Desktop
          • Android
        • File a merge request
      • Tag and update the repository
        • Tag tor-browser-...-1-build1
        • Tag tor-browser-...-1-build2
        • Make tor-browser-...-1 the default branch and freeze it
    • Do the rebase [Part 2]
      • Create the target branch (tor-browser-...-2)
      • Cherry-pick commits until tor-browser-XXX...-1-build1
      • Squash (git rebase --autosquash FIREFOX_...)
      • Cherry-pick the remaining commits
      • Reorder commits
        • Move Mozilla "Bug ZZZZZZZZ" issues to the very start
        • Move any Base Browser "BB TTTTT" issues into the BB range
        • Move --fixups next to their parent (git rebase -i --autosquash FIREFOX_... then change all the fixup to pick)
          • Note: also drop any commits marked !dropme
      • Merge
        • Perform a self-review (git range-diff + diff of diffs)
        • Run linters
        • Build and test
          • Desktop
          • Android
        • File a merge request
      • Tag and update the repository
        • tor-browser-...-2-build1
        • base-browser-...-2-build1
        • Make tor-browser-...-2 the default branch
Edited by boklm