IT/Production Acceptance/Hacks

Start of project

• Name each of the following:
  • Project sponsor: Jay Patel
  • Main IT contact: mrz
  • Metrics contact: Ken Kovash
  • Main WebDev contact: N/A
  • Main QA contact: Raymond Etornam
  • Main Security contact: N/A
  • Main third party contact (if developed externally): Craig Cook
  • Final application owner/maintainer: Developer Marketing Team
• Outline the following:
  • Overall goal of the project
    • Improve organization of posts and discoverability by redesigning the Hacks blog.
  • Any pre-requisites needed (technology, server capacity, staffing, monitoring, response time, etc)
    • DB merge with production to retain configuration and content changes made on stage (if possible).
    • Setup regular backups of all posts (if not done already)
  • Initial timeline
    • Design: Oct 15 - Nov 18
      • Chris Howse's final design: http://moz.howsehold.org/hacks/
    • Development: Nov 24 - Dec 21
      • SVN: http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/hacks.mozilla.org/trunk/
      • Craig Cook's test instance: http://mozilla.focalcurve.com/mozhacks/
    • Staging: Dec 22 - Dec 28
      • Initial update: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536341)
      • .htaccess fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536508)
    • Testing: Dec 28 - Dec 31
      • Test Results: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Hacks/WebQAv1
    • Launch: Jan 4?

• • External dependencies: None
  • Dev environment specs
    • WordPress 3.9 + standard env. requirements (already updated on stage, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536341)
  • Does this project use any plugins or proprietary technology?
    • WP Plugins: Co-Authors Plus, FC Pagination, Stats, TMH Pagehits, and ShareThis (already checked into SVN and tested on stage)

Staging Signoff [DONE]

In order to get an app into staging, the following should be completed:

• Code committed to Mozilla source control and tagged: Checked in, but not sure if everything is tagged. (http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/hacks.mozilla.org/trunk/)
• Initial architecture review by IT and WebDev: Done
• Plugin/tech review by Evangelism: Done
• Security review must be in-process: N/A
• Site must be password protected: N/A
• Review timeline to go live: N/A
• Review any production requirements so IT can order any new hardware needed: N/A

Production Signoff/Launch

• Final WebDev signoff
• Final IT signoff
• Final QA signoff
• Final Security signoff
• Final Metrics signoff
• Operations documents filled for support & any training complete
• Monitors in place