Chrome浏览器如何为数十亿用户准备更新

Published on Monday, September 26, 2022

发表于2022年9月26日星期一

Every month, we release a new version of Chrome to make sure our billions of global users and businesses get the freshest features, security updates and performance upgrades. And now, we're able to make improvements and fix issues quicker than ever before with a faster release cycle—meaning you'll get the latest updates even more often.

我们每个月都会发布新版本的Chrome浏览器，以确保我们数十亿的全球用户和企业获得最新鲜的功能、安全更新和性能升级。现在，我们能够通过更快的发布周期，比以往任何时候都更快地进行改进和修复问题，这意味着您将更频繁地获得最新的更新。

We chatted with Technical Program Managers Ben Henry, Krishna Govind, Harry Souders, Srinivas Sista, and Brandon Heenan on the Chrome release team for an inside look at how they coordinate with Google teams across the world to ensure each release goes smoothly.

我们与Chrome发布团队的技术项目经理本-亨利、克里希纳-戈温德、哈里-苏德斯、斯里尼瓦斯-西斯塔和布兰登-希南进行了交谈，了解他们如何与世界各地的谷歌团队协调，以确保每次发布顺利进行。

Q. How does your team prepare for each Chrome release?

Q.你们的团队是如何为每个Chrome浏览器的发布做准备的？

Ben: First off, our team consists of seven people working full time across two major geographies. We think preparing for a release is like a train schedule. We use four release channels–Canary, Dev, Beta, and Stable–to prepare for a Chrome milestone release. As we move through the process, each channel has more Chrome users. This allows us to obtain feedback about Chrome's stability and performance with the goal of uncovering quality issues in the product as early as possible. We pay close attention to what users and developers are saying across social media, press articles, and bug reports to help catch anything we're missing. Our team of engineers and product managers can then use this feedback to make feature improvements.

本：首先，我们的团队由七个人组成，在两个主要地区全职工作。我们认为准备发布的工作就像火车时刻表一样。我们使用四个发布渠道--初级版、开发版、测试版和稳定版来准备Chrome的里程碑式发布。在这个过程中，每个渠道都有更多的Chrome用户。这使我们能够获得有关Chrome稳定性和性能的反馈，目的是尽早发现产品中的质量问题。我们密切关注用户和开发人员在社交媒体、媒体文章和错误报告中的言论，以帮助发现我们遗漏的任何问题。我们的工程师和产品经理团队可以利用这些反馈来进行功能改进。

Then, we do several rounds of testing to detect any quality issues, first using automated systems that run continuously, ...