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Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 Release Checklist
!!Draft!!
This serves as a checklist to make sure we don't miss any community, development, QA, Build, Product team, or partner deliverables as we release a new version of 1.5.0.2.
It is organized by major functional activity in roughly chronological order. At the end of each bullet is the owner of the checklist item.
- Development code freeze - Project Lead
- Initial verification - QA Lead
- Complete Bug Verification Target - QA Lead
- BFT on one platform - QA Lead
- Complete Regression Testing - QA Lead
- Examples: All BFTs/FFTs, JS regression test, Security regressin test, top sites, top extensions, etc. See Test Plan for details.
- En-US Release Candidates
- Release Prep - Build
- en-US Install/Startpage/Version ID/Udpate test - QA Lead
- RC Release
- Annouce to community
- Watch blogs and groups
- L10n
- Owner signoff as needed
- Trademark review as needed
- L10n Build - Build
- Capture the chosen nightly into the canidates directory
- Package up the locales
- L10N qualification testing - QA Lead
- Testing by person with language skills
- Annouce to partners/distibuter - rebron
- Symantec
- McAfee
- Need at least a week notice
- Announce to security group - dveditz
- security group
- Aecurity annouce
- 1-2 weeks out
- Vulnerability Notice - dveditz
- Draft to Sec/Secannc
- Adviseries posted on release
- Other PR as needed - Product
- Web site updates
- Release Notes
- Inputs to rebron - Dev/QA/Product
- First Draft complete - rebron
- Review - Dev/QA/Product
- Final release notes - rebron
- Final staging
- Stage bits - Build
- Run automated check - QA Lead
- Version ID/Update path test - QA Lead
- Make updatepaths/install bits live - Build
- Test live update/install bigs - QA Lead
- Yahoo builds
- create and test builds with yahoo specific search codes
