MozCampEU2012/Release-Management

Title of Session: Releases: Past/Present Problems, Future Solutions, and Helping Out

Facilitators:

Are you paid or volunteer staff?: Paid

Area of Contribution: Release Management

Location of Work: MV/SF

Talk Length: 30/60 (undecided)

Summary (still in progress):

A short intro about the role of release management in the product
Channels, rapid releases, versioning, frequency of updates, and other FAQ (basically an overview)
Problems unique to shipping Firefox, with anecdotal evidence. Also unique solutions to those problems in the future
- Scalability of multiple releases, esp. w/r/t community - Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox for Android, and Firefox OS
- Investigating issues while maintaining user privacy
- 3rd party add-ons/plugins
How to contribute to, and help out with, our releases (including B2G)
- Crash-kill team
- QA testing and sign-offs
- Input feedback triage
- SUMO
- L10N (?)
- RelEng (?)

How your session furthers the MozCamp Goals (https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCampEU2012/Tracks): Touches on growth, mobile, B2G, etc.

Expected Outcome or Deliverable: A better understanding of past, present and future releases. Also an understanding of how to help out.

Desired Audience Type or Skill-set: n/a

Equipment Needs (Video projector already included): n/a

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