Release Management/Goals/2011Q4

Q4 Goals

These are the goals for the Release Management team.

Ship Firefox

Maintain

• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 8 on 2011-11-08 (on time)
• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 9 on 2011-12-20 (on time)

Improve

• [AT RISK] Get the add-on escape valve feature into Firefox 10
• [ON TRACK] Advance WinQual to a state where we can write bugs based on the information in Microsoft's system
• [ON TRACK] Prevent a Firefox 8.0.1 chemspill
• [ON TRACK] Prevent a Firefox 9.0.1 chemspill

Processes

Maintain

• [ON TRACK] Triage all Aurora bugs within 5 days of the request
• [ON TRACK] Triage all Beta bugs within 5 days of the request
• [ON TRACK] Run a post-mortem for Firefox 8 regardless of outcome

Improve

• [ON TRACK] Create, message, and implement a better triage process
• [ON TRACK] Create a proposal for better bug management/states
• [ON TRACK] Create a flowchart of the current release process
• [ON TRACK] Create a formal, machine-readable specification for releases
  • Future quarters will track integrating the specification into QA and RelEng automation

Tools

Directly applicable

• [ON TRACK] Set up relman.mozilla.org
• [ON TRACK] Create web calendar system for release dates

Indirectly applicable

• [ON TRACK] Set up pulse.mozilla.org blade cluster
• [ON TRACK] Get bugzilla-pulse integration rolled out
  • Joint goal with IT
• [ON TRACK] Get hg-pulse integration rolled out
• [ON TRACK] Create one tool to solve some pain outside of Release Management

Outreach

• [ON TRACK] Create a video/presentation for community members and new employees detailing the release process
• [ON TRACK] Answer 25 questions on SUMO
• [ON TRACK] Answer 25 questions on Twitter
• [ON TRACK] Triage 150 bugs in Firefox/General or Toolkit/General