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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. Help with tracked bugs, or hack on the tools our team develops and maintains.

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. You can't miss us at channel meetings, where we discuss and try to resolve any release related issues. Anyone working to get a new feature or complicated fix into Firefox may want to join the channel meeting to discuss the process with the entire team of release managers. User advocacy, QE and stability, and release engineering team members also often join the channel meetings.

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 followed by a release manager who owns it from start to release. 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
- Excel based checklist: Beta 44 Release Checklist
ESR Triage
Publishing to Mobile stores
Release Days Merge and release day processes
Point releases and chemspills
Releng release flow for Beta and Release
GoFaster release and relnote process

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

Repacks

Chinese repack