Release Management/Goals/2014Q4

Release Management Q4 2014 Goals

<platform> denotes goals that are listed on the platform Q4 goals list

Release Management General

Release Quality - Improve automation / reduce risk of manual errors
  • [Lukas] Create automated release checklist (maybe based on ship-it)
  • [Lukas] Fully automate Product-Details (if missed in Q3)
Release Quality - Find issues earlier
Communication
Expand contributor involvement
  • [?] Define contributor pathways
    • Triage of Desktop, Mobile, B2G, Platform, Services (?) bugs


Firefox Desktop/Mobile

  • [Lukas] <platform> Throttling improvements - continue to collect data for FF31, then implement updated SOP
    • Round 2 of experiments to get within the same week as release
    • This will get a faster uptake on new features in product release - great for press/marketing efforts to get more Mozillians
  • [Lukas] <platform> All-Hands potential sessions:
    • Can we get commitments to turning off any intermittent orange tests and then build back up?
    • Getting to Daily Betas - what's left?
    • L10n, the black box and what can we open up to greater understanding?
    • Learning from our mass-chemspill - Port-Mortem and actions to take forward
    • Release Notes & PR - overhaul and creating a high-signal method for generation of our release communications
    • Where are we in the release cycle and what does that mean to you? (dev/qa/pr/other?)

Firefox OS

  • [all] Participate in B2G test days

Special Projects

  • [Lukas] Ascend Project
    • Running the program
    • Prepare metrics (visuals) to help summarize and be able to talk about how Ascend #1 went and what's next

Personal Development

  • [Bhavana]
  • [Lawrence]
  • [Lukas] Back to guitar playing! Get above 80% on at least 2 songs I used to play, and get 2 new songs into the above 80% range
  • [Preeti]
  • [Sylvestre]
  • [Benjamin]