Release Management
Quick Links
- Release Calendar
- The Release Process explained
- Current and Past Releases
- Firefox Merge/Release Calendar
- Release Calendar (Details)
About Release Management
The Release Management team keeps the release process on track for upcoming releases. We focus on release quality, security, and stability. As release managers follow specific features and individual bugs, we work with developers, engineering managers, product managers, UI/UX teams, QE, and release engineering, doing whatever it takes to coordinate the many details in the creation of a new version of Firefox. We aim to get features & fixes landed in time for proper evaluation. Our goal is to ship the most stable & excellent product possible for Firefox Desktop & Mobile for our users.
Contribute
There are many ways to help the release management team and be part of it.
Developers and anyone in the community can help by proposing bugs for tracking, using the tracking flags in bugzilla.mozilla.org.
The relman team maintains several tools. You can help by fixing bugs!
- Our automatic nag tool to send email to Firefox developers about their bugs
- ship-it - interface to start builds of Firefox, Firefox for Android and Thunderbird
- Google Play scripts to upload APK and manage translations
Team info
- Release_Management/Team_members List of release managers, past and present
- Release_Management/Quarterly_Goals for the relman team
Communication Channels
- Team distribution list: release-mgmt at mozilla dot com
- IRC
- #relman - Release Management specific channel
- #release-drivers - Firefox Desktop and Android release drivers
Meetings
We host and are a part of number of meetings but you can't miss us at Channel Meetings,Postmortems,Release sign-offs where we discuss and try to resolve any release related issues.
- Channel Meeting
- This meeting takes place twice a week on Tuesday at 10 AM PT and Thursday at 10 AM PT in Release Coordination Vidyo Room
- Channel Meeting Wiki Archive
- Release Sign-offs
- This meeting happens a week before we are ready to ship at the Thursday Channel Meeting to address any outstanding concerns around the release
- Release sign-off meeting
- Release Post Mortem
- This meetings happens at the Tuesday Channel Meeting two weeks after a release
- Postmortem Schedule & Agenda
Calendar Updating
When the release schedule is adjusted for any reason, we need to ensure that https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mozilla.com_u92lbs8k7tj4a9j4qc231ov3co%40group.calendar.google.com is updated to reflect this. If the calendar itself is updated, there is a link to it on this page (at the top) as well as on RapidRelease/Calendar
Team Resources
Each version of Firefox is follwed by a release manager who owns it from start to release (and beyond). This way, Nightly, Aurora, Beta, ESR, and Release channels have someone dedicated to getting all the pieces put together correctly.
- Release_Management/Release_owners
- Nightly Tasks for relman during Nightly
- Aurora Landing Process What we do during the Aurora cycle
- Beta Release Checklist
- ESR Triage
- Publishing to Mobile stores
- Release Days Merge and release day processes
- Releng release flow for Beta and Release
- Release managers also help with ways we can update aspects of Firefox on the fly, including add-on hotfixes, and graphics driver and plugin blocklisting.
- Here are some guidelines for developers, product managers, and our team as well.
- Tools
- Ship-it UI - Need to be on MPT VPN
- Our Release Survey
- Firefox Triage Dashboard
- Onboarding
- B2G pages
- B2G Triage Page
- B2G Landing
- FXOS Localizations (auth required)