Releases/Firefox 3.5.2/Post Mortem

This is the agenda and notes from the post mortem for Firefox 3.0.13 and 3.5.2 that took place on August 6 at 1pm PDT.

Agenda

Please add your issues to the relevant section below.

Topics:

Development/Security

1. MFSAs online ahead of time? Put them on mozilla.com in the release notes as well?
2. It would have been nice if we could have started builds prior to Wednesday afternoon. How can we keep from having embargoed bugs in the future?

QA

1. 3.0.13 was ready for beta early Sat morning. Decision did not come until later.
   1. waited 10pm friday until 4pm saturday
2. Really great collaboration with some of the developers in bug verification

Build

1. Tripped on l10n makefile change. needed to redo l10n repacks/signing/updates.
2. New signing worked nicely; needed it for all the re-signing
3. This time, we pulled the 3.0.12 -> 3.5.1 major update before shipping at ss' request. Why? Should we continue to do that?
4. rationale could be shared pre or post fact in release-drivers [juanb]
5. did xulrunner builds at same time
6. didnt do partner builds automatically

Web work

1. Make sure both product & marketing teams are clear (and agree) on content objectives for what's new page.

IT

1. Denial of service on ocsp.globalsign.net caused by everyone trying to validate our EV cert on addons.mozilla.org (bug 508408)

Other

1. Several anti-virus products detected the Windows 3.0.13 and 3.5.2 installers as infected (false positive) (bug 508012)

Notes

(to be filled in)