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Axel Hecht

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Oct 5, 2006, 8:23:34 PM10/5/06
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Hi folks.

It's the time of year again. Sign-off time, at least almost.

The global overview, hopefully somewhat valid for upcoming releases,
too, is at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:L10n_Sign-Off.

What we want you to do for Firefox 2 is to do an intense amount of QA,
as sketched out by the litmus tests, for example. Those tests offer
quite a bit of flexibility in testing, opt for more rather than less.

On top of that, we would like you to look at the in-product web pages
closely that Pascal is coordinating.

What we hope to see is that you give one final signal that says "no-one
is going to blush for having released this as Firefox 2".

I understand that not everything needed for this is in place yet, but we
have RC2 bits on
ftp.http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2.0rc2-candidates/rc2/.
So those builds can go through testing, with reports on litmus.

I'd like you to incorporate a download test via the all-rc-whatever page
that we will have once we actually release rc 2. That should catch any
hickups during our automated release process, and it's a good idea that
those folks that care the most check that.

Do test the exposed services (search, feed, feed readers), too. Create
clean profiles, migrate clean or not so clean 1.5 profiles.

Check out if all the localized in-product pages have the content you
want up. (Follow up with Pascal in .l10n.web here.)

We don't have a timeline for you yet, either, so the sooner you start
working on the QA part, the merrier. And do send in the web page
translations, we're at 18 locales from roughly 40, and Pascal has lots
of stuff to do still once he has the content.

And now to the interesting part. This time around, we'll do sign-off via
bugzilla. Each locale should have a "Ship Firefox 2" bug, name
fx20-ab-CD. Please check all bugs that block your release bug, and make
sure they're resolved (at least for Firefox 2). As that happens, please
update those bugs with your testing reports, on the product, the
download, the webpages, etc.
Once those pass your review, and are in "Firefox Quality", close your
release bug to indicate sign-off from the localization team.

I and/or Tim, Chris Hofmann will then go over those bugs and VERIFY them
to indicate that we saw that sign-off. That's a tad different to
previous releases, but we have been more bugzilla-centric, as you
probably saw ;-).

To recapture what is said on the wiki page, sign-off is not about being
bug-free, but about having all (known) remaining bugs filed and triaged
for an upcoming release, by best knowledge and faith.

Questions, comments?

Axel

David Fraser

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Oct 9, 2006, 9:31:27 AM10/9/06
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Axel Hecht wrote:
> And now to the interesting part. This time around, we'll do sign-off
> via bugzilla. Each locale should have a "Ship Firefox 2" bug, name
> fx20-ab-CD. Please check all bugs that block your release bug, and
> make sure they're resolved (at least for Firefox 2). As that happens,
> please update those bugs with your testing reports, on the product,
> the download, the webpages, etc.
> Once those pass your review, and are in "Firefox Quality", close your
> release bug to indicate sign-off from the localization team.
>
> I and/or Tim, Chris Hofmann will then go over those bugs and VERIFY
> them to indicate that we saw that sign-off. That's a tad different to
> previous releases, but we have been more bugzilla-centric, as you
> probably saw ;-).
>
> To recapture what is said on the wiki page, sign-off is not about
> being bug-free, but about having all (known) remaining bugs filed and
> triaged for an upcoming release, by best knowledge and faith.
>
> Questions, comments?
Tracking this via bugzilla is a great idea

David

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