2005Offsite/1dot5PostMortem:Notes
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- did well
- more publicly disclosed set of goals/features
- built-in schedule time for back-end work
- shipped when we said we would
- some extensions worked
- long bake-time
- RC version number - 1.5RC3 released
- messaging framework (mktg)
- improved testing of locales
- communication - wiki.mo and devmo
- both
- automated tests
- need improvement
- features/goals not as frozen as it could/should have been
- late start for web site prep work
- l10 of website
- what is accepted at each phase of freeze
- more visibility into patches sitting in bugs
- had to reject good patches
- communication to l10 community
- we waffle too much - not firm enough
- communication to extension developers
- effect of changes to api on extensions not known well enough to api changers
- ownership of key areas - focus, printing, etc.
- lots of late stuff broke accessibility
- high risk changes
- need foxused testing around new feature landings
- test suites for obscure or edge cases
- release process automation and automated testing
- bug triage
- improvements we want to see
- automated testing
- communications
- push custom builds (tinderbox)
- tools - dev, debug, etc
- usage instrumentation and reporting
- better definition of freeze, communication of freeze policy
