Releases/Thunderbird 3.0b4

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Tracking document for the release of Thunderbird/Thunderbird 3.0b4

• TB 3.0b4 - blocking
• Build Activities
• Website Activities
• QA Activities
• Post Mortem Notes

Who

• Overall lead: Standard8
• Web pages lead: rebron
• Release notes lead: rebron
• Build lead: gozer
• QA lead: _Tsk_
• l10n lead: sipaq

What

• Thunderbird 3.0b4
• Use Official Branding
• Full l10n

General Planning

step	start date	end date	status
planning meeting
Create Tracking Bugs - see below
Ensure in-tree extensions (Venkman, DOMi) have correct maxVersion numbers. DOMI has general rs=sdwilsh for update to current version in trunk.
Heads up to QA testers

Tracking Bugs

Use New Beta Release Bug Creator to create the templates for the bugs.

• Overall Tracker: bug xxxxxx
  • QA Test Result Tracking: bug xxxxxx
  • What's New Page: bug xxxxxx
  • Release Notes: bug xxxxxx
  • Bouncer Entries: bug xxxxxx
  • Crash Stats: bug xxxxxx
  • AMO: bug xxxxxx
  • Shipped Locales bug xxxxxx

Notes: Creation of Bouncer entries is assumed to be enough of a heads-up to MoCo IT of the pending release.

String & Code Freezes

For each step, ensure relevant Tinderboxes are updated with the current status.

step	start date	end date	status
Slushy Code Freeze	2009-09-07
String Freeze	2009-09-09
Final Code Freeze	2009-09-11
L10n cut-off, shipped-locales & revisions closed off.	2009-09-14
Send signoff to thunderbird-drivers for build to start

Build Revisions

• comm-central: insert link
• mozilla-1.9.1: insert link
• dom-inspector: insert link
• LDAP CVS tag: LDAPCSDK_6_0_6B_MOZILLA_RTM
• L10N revisions: insert link
• Name for branch: COMM_yyyymmdd_RELBRANCH

Build

step	start date	est. duration	end date	status
Cut relbranch		-
Candidates built (all locales), insert link below		-
Publish partial & full updates to betatest channel		-
Sign off to thunderbird-drivers for QA to start testing	N/A	-
Sign builds		-
Sign off to thunderbird-drivers for signed builds	N/A	-

• Build Locations: insert link

QA of Builds

step	start date	est. duration	end date	status
Check builds for crash symbols (crashme!)		-
Announce Candidate builds ready for testing (newsgroups etc)		-
QA tests Candidate builds (see QA Test Result Tracking bug)		-
Partial update integrity check script run (typically by gozer)		-
QA spot checks updates on betatest channel		-

Website & Press

step	start date	est. duration	end date	status
Website changes on trunk		-
File Bug for setting up website redirects (live.momo.com start, what's new etc)		-
Website pushed to staging		-
Prepare announcement texts for mailing lists		-
QA tests website on staging (text, links etc)		-

Final Release Phase

step	start date	est. duration	end date	status
QA and release driver approve start of final release phase via thunderbird-drivers.		-
Build pushes download files to mirrors		-
Wait for bouncer to pick up files		-
Build pushes content from stage/ to production/ so that releasenotes, firstrun pages, early_releases, beta pages go live on mozillamessaging.com		-
QA download links and checks release notes, start page, what's new pages options from within TB - on en-US and non en-US locales.		-
Build pushes remaining content from stage/ to production/		-
Build pushes update snippets to beta channel, fully-throttled so that it is only available for manual updates.		-
QA spot checks production site and updates on beta channel		-
Announce release (see locations below), and check the results		-

Release Announcements

Announce to:

• mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
• mozilla.dev.planning
• mozilla.dev.l10n
• mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
• mozilla.support.thunderbird
• mozilla.announce.prerelease (see moderator info).
• About:mozilla
• Blog

Post Release

step	start date	est. duration	end date	status
A couple of days after release, QA & Release Driver approve un-throttling of updates via thunderbird-drivers	N/A	-
Build un-throttles updates.		-
Schedule and hold post-mortem meeting		1/2 hour

Old schedule

step	start date	est. duration	end date	status
Checkin AUS builder update - Standard8 what's this?	Wednesday, 2009-07-15