Notes About Releasing

Please update the Notes Template and the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed

Bugs hit

Enter any bugs pre-existing or newly discovered and filed during the release:

• bug - description

Build Engineers

{catlee} - Tracking bug: bug 760219

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: b8b0ed817c31

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

• Firefox: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets\?ms\=fx13_beta_b7

Tags

Manually tag the automation code, then record the generated tags below. (details)

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
1	GECKO130_2012053115_RELBRANCH, FIREFOX_13_0b7_BUILD1 FIREFOX_13_0b7_RELEASE	b8b0ed817c31

Build data

Firefox

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux	20120531155942	linux-ix-slave14	1 hrs, 7 mins, 8 secs
	Linux64		linux64-ix-slave21	1 hrs, 5 mins, 50 secs
	Mac		moz2-darwin10-slave42	3 hrs, 21 mins, 10 secs
	Windows		mw32-ix-slave13	3 hrs, 30 mins, 34 secs

Notes

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

• Set clobbers for release-mozilla-beta on all masters
• Set reserved slaves on bm13:

[cltbld@buildbot-master13 master]$ pwd
/builds/buildbot/build1/master
[cltbld@buildbot-master13 master]$ cat reserved_slaves
5

• Create candidates link:

# ffxbld@stage
cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/
mkdir ../candidates/13.0b7-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/13.0b7-candidates 13.0b7-candidates

• Update l10n changesets for desktop, mobile : No changes.
  • Instructions on how to get them
  • dashboard
• Landed configs: default production

• Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags. (details)

hg tag -f FIREFOX_13_0b7_RELEASE FIREFOX_13_0b7_BUILD1

• update and reconfigure the master

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u catlee -V 13.0b7 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py --products firefox --dryrun localhost:9001

• start automation
  • the same command as above but without the "--dryrun"

E-mail Metrics

Use the address "metrics-alerts < AT > mozilla < PERIOD > org". Note for first-time-releasers: your email will get held for moderator approval - that is expected. If it happens more than once, get help on #metrics.

Firefox,firefox,firefox,13.0b7,13.0

Tag -> Ready for release

All automated; no problems \o/

Reset reserved_slaves to 0

Going to Beta

Run backupsnip

backupsnip Firefox-13.0b7-build1

Push to beta

Wait for "go" from release managers
For Firefox:

• Publish (and record run time here):

pushsnip Firefox-13.0b7-build1

cat Firefox-13.0b7-build1.time
real 285.03
user 1.70
sys 5.44

Wait for confirmation from QA that each of the above releases is okay, then close the tracking ticket.

Release Day

Push XULRunner to Mirrors

Update XULRunner wiki page

For major releases or chemspills, update the links on:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_SDK

Also for older releases:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner_1.9.2_Release_Notes
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_SDK

Check Throttling

See http://update-watch.localgho.st/release/ for example AUS links

Some links to check:

• Automatic (idle time check) update links:
  • 10.0.2 en-US win32 linux mac linux64
  • 9.0 en-US win32 linux mac linux64
  • 10.0.2esr en-US win32 linux mac linux64
  • 10.0esr en-US win32 linux mac linux64
  • 3.6.27 en-US win32 linux mac
• Manual update links:
  • 10.0.2 en-US win32 linux mac linux64
  • 9.0 en-US win32 linux mac linux64
  • 10.0.2esr en-US win32 linux mac linux64
  • 10.0esr en-US win32 linux mac linux64
  • 3.6.27 en-US win32 linux mac

Push to Release Channel (for beta releases and release releases)

Once there is enough uptake and we get "go" from release driver.