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* QA was quick! | * QA was quick! | ||
** Took 3 days, finding [[QA/Thunderbird3/TestResults/Alpha1|~20 bugs]]. | |||
*** No showstoppers. | |||
** A substantial amount of stress on the QA folk(s), though nothing overwhelming. | |||
** Bugzilla flags have to be disabled post-a1-release - {{bug|434956}} | |||
* No RC2 needed | * No RC2 needed. | ||
** Alpha 1 was stable for an alpha. | |||
** Whatever unstable implementations of code had already been backed out. | |||
** Aug 2005 to end-April 2008 code -> 32 months since TB 2 codebase branched. | |||
== What could have gone better, and lessons learned == | == What could have gone better, and lessons learned == | ||
* Learned too late about branding subtleties. | * Learned too late about branding subtleties. | ||
** {{bug|430762}} | |||
** {{bug|432188}} | |||
** {{bug|433630}} | |||
** {{bug|432756}}? | |||
** ... | |||
* Notified IT too late about need for MoMo svn up on production site | * Notified IT too late about need for MoMo svn up on production site | ||
** {{bug|433593}} | |||
* Not much community involvement for alpha 1 testday. | |||
** Have to reach out more to the community besides existing efforts. | |||
** nth10sd - My hands were tied on this; working on the testplan & almost nobody showing up to help QA testing. | |||
*** Had been in over-drive to finish up QA alone in this regard, but not overwhelmingly stressful though. | |||
** We really should involve more of the community, even regulars popping by in the channel discussing certain areas of testing collaboratively would be helpful. | |||
** Alpha 2 QA plan? | |||
* No significant numbers of Litmus testcases for Thunderbird 3 testday | |||
** Litmus admin was on leave, so the TB 2 testcases couldn't be copied in time. | |||
*** TB2 testcases were used instead. | |||
** Now in progress - {{bug|431883}} | |||