QA/Firefox/Merge Plan 2011-08-16

Summary

The following is a plan of action for all things which need to be completed for the Firefox 6 release, Firefox 7 merge to beta, Firefox 8 merge to aurora, and Firefox 9 merge to nightly.

Timeline

Firefox 6

• Wednesday, August 10, 2011
  • [DONE] [softvision] Test Firefox 6 and escalate issues for Go-no-Go call
  • [DONE] [various] Go-no-Go Meeting
• Thursday, August 11, 2011
  • [DONE] [ashughes] Send Go-no-Go status
  • [DONE] [whimboo] Merge mozmill-tests branches for version bump
  • [DONE] [releng] Firefox 6 RC builds generated
  • [DONE] [ashughes] Litmus testrun created
  • [DONE] [ashughes] Firefox 6 Release testplan published
• Friday, August 12, 2011
  • [DONE] [whimboo] BFT automation sign-off
  • [DONE] [softvision] Smoketest sign-off
  • [DONE] [softvision] Feature sign-off
  • [DONE] [softvision] Bug triage sign-off
  • [DONE] [ashughes] Update automation sign-off (betatest)
  • [DONE] [ashughes] QA signs off Firefox 6 to go to Beta
  • [DONE] [releng] Firefox 6 pushed to live to Beta
  • [DONE] [ashughes] Update automation sign-off (beta)
• Monday, August 15, 2011
  • [ON TRACK] [release-drivers] Make final call to go to mirrors based on weekend data
  • [releng] Firefox 6 pushed to mirror network
  • [ashughes] Update automation sign-off (releasetest)
• Tuesday, August 16, 2011
  • [releng] Firefox 6 pushed live to release
  • [ashughes] Update automation sign-off (release)
  • [release-drivers] Push web content live
  • [softvision] Spotcheck web content
  • [ashughes] Final QA sign-off for Firefox 6

Firefox 3.6.20

• Wednesday, August 10, 2011

• Thursday, August 11, 2011

• Friday, August 12, 2011

• Monday, August 15, 2011

• Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Firefox Merges

• Tuesday, August 16, 2011
  • [releng] All three merges performed
  • [whimboo] Update Mozmill dashboard filter for Nightly version bump
  • [various] Qualify mozilla-beta, mozilla-aurora, and mozilla-nightly builds (see below)
• Wednesday, August 17, 2011
  • [ashughes] Automated BFT verifications
  • [softvision] Manual testing verifications
  • [softvision] Feature sign-off
  • [softvision] Bug fix verifications
  • [ashughes] Automated update verifications
  • [ashughes] QA signs-off all three merges
• Thursday, August 18, 2011
  • [releng] Firefox 7 pushed to Beta audience
  • [releng] Firefox 8 pushed to Aurora audience
  • [releng] Firefox 9 pushed to Nightly audience
  • [ashughes] QA qualifies updates for Fx 6 -> 7 on Beta
  • [tester] QA qualifies updates for Fx 7 -> 8 on Aurora
  • [tester] QA qualifies updates for Fx 8 -> 9 on Nightly
  • [ashughes] QA gives final sign-off of all three merges

Release Drivers Timeline: checklist