Release Management/Goals/2015Q2

Release Management Q2 2015 Goals

Release Management General

Release Quality - Improve automation / reduce risk of manual errors

• [Sylvestre] Get product-detail out of subversion by migrating to a ship-it based solution
• [Sylvestre] Propagate the beta (b1, b2, etc) information from Firefox to the various tools

Release Quality - Find issues earlier

Communication

• [Liz] Improve the documentation for release managers on the wiki, including onboarding and checklists.

Release Strategy

Expand contributor involvement

Firefox Desktop/Mobile

• Manage and coordinate active Firefox and Firefox for Android releases
  • [Lawrence] Firefox 37
  • [Sylvestre] Firefox 38 & 38.0.5
  • [Liz+Lawrence] Firefox 39. (Learn to follow a Firefox release from start to release, with Firefox 39)

Firefox ESR

• [Benjamin] Kick Off ESR Survey with User Advocacy (Tyler Downer)

Special Projects

• [Liz] run community triage sessions for Nightly
• [Liz] Fix some bugs in Nucleus or Ship-it
• [Liz] relman update email/blog posts
• [Sylvestre] Manage the French R&D tax credit (Credit Impôt recherche)

Personal Development

• [Benjamin] Dedicate more time to reading books in my Mozilla Safari Books Queue
• [Benjamin] More banjo practice
• [Liz] Own every portal in Whistler for the Resistance in Ingress
• [Liz] Go to the beach
• [Sylvestre] Certified sidemount diver in Egypt