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] 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
• [ON TRACK] Run a post-mortem for Firefox 9

Improve

• [ON TRACK] Create, message, and implement a better triage process
• [ON TRACK] Create, message, and implement a better sign-off process
• [ON TRACK] Create a proposal for better bug management/states

Tools

Directly applicable

• [ON TRACK] Create web calendar system for release dates
• [ON TRACK] Create tool to help standardize triage flow
• [ON TRACK] Create a first-responder Twitter bot to inform users about a release

Indirectly applicable

• [ON TRACK] Get bugzilla-pulse integration rolled out
• [ON TRACK] Get hg-pulse integration rolled out
• [ON TRACK] Create one tool to solve pain outside of Release Management

Outreach

• [ON TRACK] Answer 25 questions on SUMO
• [ON TRACK] Answer 25 questions on Twitter
• [ON TRACK] Triage 150 bugs in Firefox/General