Webtools:Deployment Guidelines

The purpose of this document is to make these requirements known and understood for people interested in releasing a new web application on Mozilla infrastructure.

Goals

• Ensure that deployed web apps are of sufficient quality to bear our brand and be presented to the target community
• Ensure that our applications are respectful of their shared environment and resources
• Provide for timely and reliable validation and deployment of updates to applications
• Ensure that expectations of availability, resource limits, turnaround time, and other such factors are well-understood by all parties, and negotiated to mutual satisfaction
• Remember we're one team trying to serve millions
• Group hugging is mandatory

Requirements

• Give IT and other affected groups as much notice as possible
• Have documented requirements
• Must be code-complete, meaning it meets your base requirements
• Must be in a repository
• Must be reviewed by Webdev before staging and deployment
• Ideally would have some sort of testing scripts written for code coverage.
• Code must run on current IT infrastructure/software. Exceptions/additions will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and require more ramp up time.

Okay, so now what?

• File an IT request to get things rolling. Explain the above items in your bug, and when you want to release your app. We will work together as a team to get it done.