Phil posted triage criteria for upcoming milestones a few days ago (its attached
below as a reminder). The criteria isn't all that different from any mozilla
milestone that we try to wind down. It centers around trying to make
the best software possible that will be usable by the widest number of people
within the milestone time constraints. Its not a good idea to continue
to take features in the last week of the milestone since it leaves little time
for shaking out regressions. Feature work should be removed from the list
at this point. The last week of the milestone should be focused
on building the list of things that make the software hard or dangerous to use
and driving this list to zero.
thanks
chris h.
In a message to mozilla-seamonkey on 5/11/01 Phil Peterson wrote:
Folks, Netscape is gearing up to enter a stability phase surrounding mozilla 0.9.1. We need to wring the unnecessary bugs out of the bug list and end up with just the most important bugs remaining. We're asking Netscape employees to use these criteria for keeping bugs on the 0.9.1 milestone.
1. crash, topcrash, hang and dataloss bugs
2. bugs called out specifically by the product teams who will build releases based on mozilla 0.9.1
3. correctness bugs, biased towards bugs with the worst impact on the largest number of users.
As usual, we would love help building test cases, fixing bugs, verifying fixes, etc. from everyone who wants to make mozilla 0.9.1 a really solid build.
To reiterate some dates:
- Fri 5/11 - Last day for Netscape employees to land big changes for 0.9.1
- Mon 5/14 - Netscape Product Delivery Team (PDT) begins bug triage as necessary. Engineering managers should have your lists in good shape.
- Fri 5/18 - Last day for Netscape employees to check in fixes for non-stopper bugs (please continue to fix bugs in priority order)
- Tue 5/22 - Tree freeze for mozilla 0.9.1
-- Phil & PDT.
Axel Hecht wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Hi Marek,
I understand that almost anything surrounding 6.TBA (whatever that
shortcut means) is under NDA, but
Please tell folks the semantics of milestones before (or at the same
time) you (or choffman) make people triage.
I just spammed people by moving a bug from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3, and that
after thinking and even asking which is the right milestone to set.
Axel
