Release Management/Goals/2015Q1

Release Management Q1 2015 Goals

<platform> denotes goals that are listed on the platform Q4 goals list

Release Management General

Release Quality - Improve automation / reduce risk of manual errors

• [Sylvestre] Add capability to release notes backend (nucleus) to upload an image/video. bug 1117783, bug 1117786 and bug 1117790
• [Sylvestre] Ship-it: Automatically generate partials based on current release ADI
• [Sylvestre] Ship-it: Automatically generate product details
• [Lukas] Nucleus: bug 1119556 add links to staging/production notes in release edit page

Release Quality - Find issues earlier

• [all] get assignees on bugs earlier in the cycle (bonus if this was in the dashboard)

Communication

• [Lukas] Get the nag emails running again for Desktop/Mobile/ESR bugs

Release Strategy

• [Lukas] RelmanDash v0.2: Get a dashboard up in Moz Spaces with info on where we're at in the release, and visibility into what issues there are with each channel
• [Lukas/Sylvestre] Enable updates faster: starting with 35.0 and then again with 36.0 we'll enable updates on the Friday of release week and see how that goes - collect info, bring to post-mortem. Before 37.0 we should assess if this is going well making it the new normal

Expand contributor involvement

• [Lukas] put out the call for, interview, and onboard at least one new contributor

Firefox Desktop/Mobile

• Manage and coordinate active Firefox and Firefox for Android releases
  • [Lawrence] Firefox 34
  • [Lukas] Firefox 35
  • [Sylvestre] Firefox 36
  • [Lawrence] Firefox 37
  • [Lukas] Firefox 38
  • [Sylvestre] Firefox 39

Personal Development

• [Lawrence]
• [Lukas] submit a talk to OSCON "How to onboard and embed a non-coding contributor in your team"
• [Sylvestre]
• [Benjamin]