Release Management Q1 2015 Goals

<platform> denotes goals that are listed on the platform Q4 goals list

Release Management General

Release Quality - Improve automation / reduce risk of manual errors

• [Sylvestre] Add capability to release notes backend (nucleus) to upload an image/video. bug 1117783, bug 1117786 and bug 1117790
• [Sylvestre] Ship-it: Automatically generate partials based on current release ADI bug 1146863
• [Sylvestre] Ship-it: Automatically generate product details bug 1083718
• [Lukas] Nucleus: bug 1119556 add links to staging/production notes in release edit page

Release Quality - Find issues earlier

• [all] get assignees on bugs earlier in the cycle - ideally when bug is marked as tracking (bonus if this was in the dashboard)
• [Lawrence] Improve pre-release data quality for graphics
• [Lawrence] Improve pre-release data quality for stability
• [DONE] [Lawrence] Create checkIID hook to catch required UUID bumps (bug 1128518)
  • Thanks to poiru for picking this up!

Communication

• [DONE] [Lukas] Get the nag emails running again for Desktop/Mobile/ESR bugs
• [DONE] [Lukas] RelmanDash v0.2: Get a dashboard up in Moz Spaces with info on where we're at in the release, and visibility into what issues there are with each channel
  • Thanks to Lawrence for getting Kyle to build release dash and for Ted's what train site
  • These are now part of Corsica and up in Toronto, SF, Portland, and MV -- and anywhere else that uses Corsica 'ambient'
• [Lawrence] Publish updated documentation about release schedule and process
• [Lawrence] Make team wiki easier to find information for devs and relman
  • Improve documentation about how to manage a release
  • Ensure documentation for plug-in blocklist, add-on hotfix, and gfx blocklist is up-to-date
  • Create release checklists for Aurora, Beta, Release, point release, and chemspill

Release Strategy

• [Lawrence] Create release strategy document summarizing plans for improvements to measurement, process, issue mitigation, turnaround time, and automation.
• [Lukas/Sylvestre] Enable updates faster: starting with 35.0 and then again with 36.0 we'll enable updates on the Friday of release week and see how that goes - collect info, bring to post-mortem. Before 37.0 we should assess if this is going well making it the new normal
• [Lawrence] Create a Firefox distribution plan

Expand contributor involvement

• [DONE] [Lukas] put out the call for, interview, and onboard at least one new contributor
  • Welcome to flowerhack (aka Julia) who has begun to learn triage and relman general knowledge
• [Benjamin] help promote Lukas's blog post for new contributor

Firefox Desktop/Mobile

• Manage and coordinate active Firefox and Firefox for Android releases
  • [DONE] [Lawrence] Firefox 34
  • [DONE] [Lukas] Firefox 35
  • [Sylvestre] Firefox 36
  • [Lawrence] Firefox 37
  • [Lukas] Firefox 38
  • [Sylvestre] Firefox 39

Firefox ESR

• • [Benjamin] Release ESR Proposal to Relman and other parties
  • [Benjamin] Work with User Advocacy to produce new ESR survey
  • [Benjamin] Work with stakeholders to implement ESR Proposal if approved
  • [Benjamin] Do ESR Wiki Documentation Housekeeping
  • [DONE] [Benjamin] Get access to /lib/product-detail to update during release

Special Projects

Personal Development

• [Lawrence] Chair Slice the Ice charity hockey game and raise $160,000 for neonatal care.
• [DONE] [Lukas] submit a talk to OSCON "How to onboard and embed a non-coding contributor in your team"
  • Submitted talks to Open Source Bridge and AlterConf instead
• [Sylvestre]
• [Benjamin] Continue reading two books on Django and write first Django app