Firefox:1.5.0.4:Schedule
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Here is the combined schedule for Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.4. It contains the major steps for development, QA, Build and Community RC. Many things are hard to include on such a high level schedule including last opportunity to land fixes on the trunk, the community test day, etc.
Please note: This is a tight schedule. We have tried not to make it overly optimistic, but also not overly pessimistic. Unforeseen events can cause slips which are likely to effect things downstream. We will update this when major changes to the schedule occur.
Major activities on the schedule
- Development
- Development = Identifing blockers, identify other non-critical but high ROI fixes, triaging bug nominations and patch approvals, landing patches
- QA
- Bug Verification = Verifying all possible security bugs, critical bugs and blocker bugs. All security bugs must be verified before "go" for "build prep"
- Build Qual = a BFT (Basic Functional Test) on windows and smoke tests on linux/mac. The BFT needs to be completed before the "go" for build prep.
- Package Qual = Download and install the en-US build and smoke test. Same for update paths for EN-US
- Pkg L10n Qual = Test any new locales and spot test the previously released locales on different platforms. Same for update paths for locales. Test all the update paths on different platforms.
- Staging test = Spot test the builds (en-US and locales) from the staging location. These are final bits ready to be turned live. This is a smaller subset of locales to test then the "Pkg L10n Qual" since we are just looking for staging issues at this point. Once the bits go live, test the all.html page.
- Build
- Release Prep = tagging, signing, etc. for en-US. Includes update mar files.
- L10n Prep = tagging, signing, etc. for the locales. Includes update mar files.
- Final Release Prep = final moving of bits to staging, mirrors. Turning on betatest and releasetest update channels for quick test. Activate beta and release update channels when everything is ready to go.