On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Ryan Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi All, > > > For cross-team planning purposes, it makes sense for us to have our > two-week development cycles aligned with those of the rest of the > Firefox org. > > The broader org are scheduling work based on three two-week development > iterations in each six-week Firefox release cycle. They're starting > "iteration 42.3" this week, the third and final two-week iteration while > Firefox 42 is on Nightly. > > We're halfway through our train-43 development cycle, meaning we're > misaligned by a week. > > I propose that once train-43 is out the door, we do a three-week train > to get into alignment: > > * Week of 3rd August: train-43 tagged, train-44 begins > * Week of 10th August: train-43 deployed, Firefox 40 released > * Week of 24th August: train-44 tagged > > This would put us squarely in alignment with the Firefox 43.X > development cycles, like so: > > * Firefox 43.1 == FxA train-44 > * Firefox 43.2 == FxA train-45 > * Firefox 43.3 == FxA train-46 > * etc... > > At which point we might consider just adopting their naming scheme as > well, but let's not change too many things at once :-) > > It would also mean that we have our train *deployments* offset by a week > from Firefox releases, unlike train-43 with is scheduled to go live the > same week as the Firefox 40 release. I think this will be a good thing > for overall release and quality management. > > > Thoughts? > As a client engineer who will care more and more about FxA trains and features, I'm a big +1 to aligning; but the fact that deployment is mis-aligned surprises me. I suppose what you're saying is that a web feature that the client depends on will always *lead* by a cycle, not *drag* by a cycle; i.e., that synchronized features will always be developed in earlier web versions that precede client versions, so that the deployment is always in advance of the moving client. Is that correct? Nick
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