Sprint Process

Focus follows a 2-week sprint cycle with 6-week milestone releases. Dot-releases with bugfixes are released every two weeks. Our upcoming train schedule is here.

Issue naming and labels

Labels

Priority labels are based on the Bugzilla triage process and set during triage to determine when they’ll be worked on:

P1: Issues for the current 2-week sprint.
- Open engineering issues
- Open UX issues
P2: Issues for the 6-week milestone release.
- Open engineering issues
- Open UX issues
P3: Backlog
P5: Will not fix but will accept a patch

Other labels:

addressed: Label for excluding items from triage. Should be used for [meta] items.

Issue Prefixes

[meta]: larger issues that need to be broken down, into a [breakdown] issue and issues for its smaller parts. This should include a checklist of all the issues (including the [breakdown] issue).

These do NOT get a P* label, but should be in a milestone.
[breakdown]: issue to track the work of breaking down a larger bug

Triage - Weekly

(Link) Assign priority labels (P1, P2, …) to bugs without priority labels or the addressed label
(Link) Ensure all P1 labels are assigned a milestone
(Link) Ensure all P2 labels are assigned a milestone

Weekly Bug management (alternating)

Sprint planning

Deciding what goes into a sprint, promote P2 issues to P1. After every release, this meeting is for deciding what goes into the upcoming milestone - add issues to the milestone and set them as P2.

Backlog grooming

Handling Triage overflow, adding to the contributor bug lists, looking at milestone lists.

Monthly Roadmap Planning

Plan and prioritize features for upcoming milestones - an update will be emailed out.

Plan and facilitate workweeks release schedule trying to work with things without proper training too much observing