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About Release Management

The Release Management Team keeps the release process on track while ensuring quality releases of our products and for users. We track work for upcoming releases, coordinating with any and all teams responsible for areas of release quality, security, and stability. As release managers track specific features and individual bugs, we work with developers, engineering managers, product managers, UI/UX teams, and QE, monitoring everything that goes into a new version of Firefox under development. We aim to get features & fixes (and sometimes backouts) landed in time for proper evaluation. Our goal is to ship the most stable & quality product possible for Firefox Desktop & Mobile.

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

E-mail

Team distribution list: release-mgmt at mozilla dot com

IRC

#relman - Release Management specific channel
#release-drivers - Firefox Desktop and Android release drivers

Twitter

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

B2G pages

Release Management