ProgramManagement/Firefox/2011-Q3-Goals

Stability

Socorro features

Ensure that the following are implemented in Socorro in the Q3 timeframe.

• P1
  • Reports that are based on channel+build_id instead of only version - bug 540687 (2.1, topcrashers), bug 657400 (untargeted, crashes per user)
  • hang pairs (bug 637661 - 2.1) - try to get this for non-throttled builds, match when match is available on throttled builds.
  • Integration of "external" reports: bug 640237 - 2.1, bug 640238 - 2.1, bug 640241 - 2.1, bug 640242 - 2.1, bug 641487 - 2.1

• P2
  • DLL Directory (bug 577613 - 2.1)
  • Content crashes (bug 578687 - 2.2)
  • Explosive crash detection (bug 629062 - 2.1) - implement the prototype algorithm in Socorro itself.
  • More items from "UItweaks" list - pick some specific ones?

• P3
  • bug 642336 (untargeted) - summarized overview for signature
  • Correlation reports need to become better (bug 642325 - untargeted).

Top crashes

• Tackle helping to resolve a top crash appearing in the top 20 list for a major release.
  • Candidate: Class of GC crashes like js::gc::MarkObject.

General

• Inclusion of Fennec for top crash monitoring, reporting and weekly crashkill meeting.

Features

• Adding comments to plugin crashes - bug 648675
  • Get resourced and implemented.

General Project Mgmt

• Six month engineering program and project management staffing plan
  • List of projects, roles and basic skills required (junior, senior).
• Outline for a project management tool to track features and their progress (shared goal with Deb Richardson)
  • Step 1: Scenarios and use cases for PMs to track features.
  • Step 2: Detailed spec for project management dashboard.
• Hire 2 program/project managers