Firefox:1.5.0.4:Release Checklist

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Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 Release Checklist

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.

  • 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 - basil
    • 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 - cbeard
    • Review - Dev/QA/Product
    • Final release notes - cbeard
  • 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
  • Special CJK builds for Yahoo and Google
    • These are builds with yahoo specific search codes
    • The are due within 2 weeks of the main product release
    • Generate builds - Build
    • Test the builds - QA lead
    • Release the builds to the respective venders - Build
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