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Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 Release Checklist

!!Draft!!

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 a new version of 1.5.0.2.

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

• Development code freeze - Project Lead
• Initial verification - QA Lead
  • Complete Bug Verification Target - QA Lead
  • BFT on one platform - QA Lead
• Complete Regression Testing - QA Lead
  • Examples: All BFTs/FFTs, JS regression test, Security regressin test, top sites, top extensions, etc. See Test Plan for details.
• En-US Release Candidates
  • Release Prep - Build
  • en-US Install/Startpage/Version ID/Udpate test - QA Lead
• RC Release
  • Annouce to community
  • Watch blogs and groups

• L10n
  • Owner signoff as needed
  • Trademark review as needed
  • L10n Build - Build
    • Capture the chosen nightly into the canidates directory
    • Package up the locales
  • L10N qualification testing - QA Lead
  • Testing by person with language skills

• Annouce to partners/distibuter - rebron
  • Symantec
  • McAfee
  • Need at least a week notice
• Announce to security group - dveditz
  • security group
  • Aecurity annouce
  • 1-2 weeks out
• Vulnerability Notice - dveditz
  • Draft to Sec/Secannc
  • Adviseries posted on release
• Other PR as needed - Product
  • Web site updates
• Release Notes
  • Inputs to rebron - Dev/QA/Product
  • First Draft complete - rebron
  • Review - Dev/QA/Product
  • Final release notes - rebron
• Final staging
  • Stage bits - Build
  • Run automated check - QA Lead
  • Version ID/Update path test - QA Lead
  • Make updatepaths/install bits live - Build
  • Test live update/install bigs - QA Lead