Thunderbird/Releases

Point Releases

• Releases/Priority_Ranking (Normal / Medium / High)

Team Members

High/Medium Priority:

• Thunderbird drivers (thunderbird-drivers) to give decision.

Normal:

• Project Lead (TBD).

All Priorities:

Release Procedure

1. Create new page on Releases for the point release.
2. Copy Releases/Checklist and link to from page in previous step.
3. Follow steps on Releases/Checklist - relevant owner to strike out each step as it is performed.

Must Have

• Do all relevant folks have permissions to access security bugs?
  • No. Standard8 doesn't have access to bugzilla or list, Ludovic doesn't have access to list.
• Which checklist?
• AV/firewall vendors - need more info.
  • Will poke SS
• Release Notes
  • Who/what/when, where does l10n come into it?
• How do we get the security centre updated? [1]

TODOs

• Point release and drivers could be a separate groups of people - therefore create a separate list release-drivers? (may be a good idea anyway to separate out the two types of email)
  • See how it goes using thunderbird-drivers

• Do the project leads have un-moderated access to mozilla.announce.prerelease and mozilla.announce?
  • Poke MoCo guys more. Helps to be subscribed to the list.
• Release checklist step "Notify mirrors of beta release - Project lead emails Justin" - need more info.
  • Asked gozer to find out
• How much does Build:ReleasePolicy apply to us? How do we monitor/get details.
  • Asked gozer to find out.
• Do relevant folks have access to update website?
  • Need to know who's doing it.
• Do we need template announcements?
  • Need our own version of How to draft release notes
  • Need to talk to davida/rebron
• MDC DevNews - are we posting there, if so how?
  • Sent email asking.
• Need to be aware that 1.9.1 may have different release schedules/targets, nightlies will presumably use latest 1.9.1, but releases will probably want to use tagged versions, or verify the fixes in between the latest tagged and where to release from.