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* Communication
* Communication


See [http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2006/06/28/better-corporate-deployment/ raccetura's blogpost].
See [http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2006/06/28/better-corporate-deployment/ raccettura's blogpost].


What can we actually provide? Will it be sufficient? What are the costs?
What can we actually provide? Will it be sufficient? What are the costs?
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** Testing of GP support
** Testing of GP support
** Beta/RC communication to IT deployers for early testing
** Beta/RC communication to IT deployers for early testing
== Decisions and Action Items ==
* Mozilla does not have the personnel resources to do market studies of the corporate deployment space (general agreement)
* Mozilla should document existing resources such as the Mission Control Desktop  which have already been used for corporate deployment (mscott, bienvenu)
* Mozilla Developer Center should have a corporate deployment section (talk to deb)
* Incremental development of features that are important to corporate deployment must develop organically; especially take contributions from the community
* Implement discussion/announce group for communication with/between corporate deployers (bsmedberg to talk to gerv/justdave)
* An official Mozilla MSI may happen for FF3 but is not a priority (robstrong)

Latest revision as of 03:31, 22 July 2006

What do corporate deployers need/want?

  • MSI installers
    • Includes (implies?) IT control of upgrade
  • Group Policy defaults and lockdown
  • Long-term support/maintenance (?)
  • Early testing of new releases
  • Communication

See raccettura's blogpost.

What can we actually provide? Will it be sufficient? What are the costs?

  • Engineering
    • MSI installer building
    • Group Policy support
  • Build/release
    • MSI release engineering
  • QA
    • Testing of MSI releases
    • Testing of GP support
    • Beta/RC communication to IT deployers for early testing

Decisions and Action Items

  • Mozilla does not have the personnel resources to do market studies of the corporate deployment space (general agreement)
  • Mozilla should document existing resources such as the Mission Control Desktop which have already been used for corporate deployment (mscott, bienvenu)
  • Mozilla Developer Center should have a corporate deployment section (talk to deb)
  • Incremental development of features that are important to corporate deployment must develop organically; especially take contributions from the community
  • Implement discussion/announce group for communication with/between corporate deployers (bsmedberg to talk to gerv/justdave)
  • An official Mozilla MSI may happen for FF3 but is not a priority (robstrong)