Firefox3/Schedule/AlphaChecklist

This serves as a checklist to make sure we don't miss any community, development, QA, Build, Product team, or partner deliverables as we release this version.

It is organized by major functional activity in roughly chronological order. At the end of each bullet is the owner of the checklist item from within the Release Team.

Release Lead: TDB

• Announce High Risk Change Freeze - Release lead

• Development code freeze - Release lead

• Initial verification - QA Lead
• BFT on one platform - QA Lead

• En-US Release Candidates
  • Release Prep - Build
  • en-US Install/start page/Version ID/Update test - QA Lead

• Release Notes
  • Inputs to cbeard/basil - Dev/QA/Product
  • First Draft complete -
  • Review - Dev/QA/Product
  • Final release notes -

• Final staging
  • Stage bits - Build
  • Make update paths/install bits live - Build
  • Run automated download checker - QA
  • Test live update/install bits - QA Lead
  • Post note to these places to annouce the release;
    • all -at- mozilla.com (so all staff knows)
    • drivers -at- mozilla.org (so drivers outside Mozilla Corp know)
    • mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup
    • mozilla.announce.preannouce newsgroup (all product release announcements are expected here)