Launch procedure
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Spread Firefox Redesign Launch Details
Monday, April 6:
- File IT bug to set up static HTML page/Mary
- Finalize Content Change tracker/Mary
- Finish Affiliates testing/Donner & Buchanan
- Final review of bug list/All
- Pull SFx daily stats/ Alex
Tuesday, April 7:
- Approximately 7 p.m. PDT -- take Spread Firefox offline and push static HTML redirect live/Mary/Alex to greenlight this.
- This should include setting up a temporary private DNS in production which points to the production site, so that we can set up the new version while spreadfirefox.com redirects to an outage page.
- Back up production DB
- Apply changes to production site/ Alex
- Update code (i.e. svn up to tags/production@HEAD)
- IT run to updates.sql file to capture Drupal, settings and other changes.
- Add new content
- Mary, Alix and QA team to begin site review when Alex says so.
- Mary, Stephen and Buchanan sign off on throwing the switch on the launch bug.
- Flip the spreadfirefox.com Apache/DNS config from the outage page, back to the actual site