Releases/Thunderbird 3.0.4/Post Mortem

Post Mortem for the Thunderbird release of 3.0.4

Done via email/irc.

• We're looking for:
  • How well did new processes introduced go?
  • Any problem/pain points?
  • Can we reduce time spent or speed up processes?

Leading up to the release (patch landing, code freeze, beta etc)

• Didn't pick up on bug 555575 until a few hours before the release.
  • Do we need to arrange better testing (smoketesting?) for beta locales?
    • Axel is improving compare-locales scripts to pick up l10n errors, not sure this one would have been picked up.
    • Running mozmill tests over new locales could help? Would help if these were packaged.

Build

QA

Security

Website (Release Notes, What's New, L10n issues etc)

• Due to late error in sl, had to go and find a MoCo webdev guy to review the updated product-details change.
• We now have a way to automatically generate the information for thunderbirdDetails.class.php - this is via a script which now works out the details based on downloaded shipped-locale files and actual values from ftp.
  • bug 539936 is completing the work for this.

Actual Release (Pushing out, updates, etc)

• Instructions for pushing builds to ftp are now on the intranet.

Anything else

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