Regression Engineering Owner (REO)

Every release has an assigned Regression Engineering Owner (REO).

Time commitment: 1 hour a week for the meeting, plus 1 hour a week for skimming bugs in Bugzilla, over the entire duration of the version from Nightly to Release (usually 8 weeks). Being able to attend the weekly regression triage meeting is a requirement of being an REO.

Responsibilities

  • Be a partner for release management’s Release Manager assigned to the same release

  • Ensure a decision is made about each regression reported in the release:

    • push for the responsible team to fix it

    • back related changes out

    • ship with it

    • delay shipping

  • Keep a mental state of how we are doing with regressions in a release

  • Pay close attention to the release-drivers mailing list

  • Run the weekly regression triage meeting

Schedule

REOs are tracked internally on the REO rotation by director sheet and on the Release Owners wiki page.