SeaMonkey:First Release: Difference between revisions

  <ben_> so here's what you need to do to ship a release. 1. decide what you want out of it (a good start is to develop a product plan in wiki.mozilla.org with checkmarked features/etc) 2. find engineers to do each of the items in the aforementioned list 3. get those engineers to provide blurb+swag for each - this is a description of the item + estimated time to completion or an ETA. 4. have them implement the features. 5. deal with bugs that arise, manage the

  <ben_> 6. when your features are done, you can beta... when you get to a low level of remaining bugs, you can kick off the final release process.  

  <ben_> the final release process involves things like documenting changes (release noets, product pages, etc).  

  <ben_> er, "manage them using bugzilla flags, etc. prioritize them and have people work on those."

  <ben_> ... getting testing builds spun, having interested users test them and submit feedback, driving the list to zero and handling new bugs as they come in.