Releases/Firefox 15.0.1/BuildNotes

Be sure to take notes on manual steps and any problems you encounter.

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• E-mail Mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Edit any rsync exclude files ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Push index files to the mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Run backupsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE ESR}
• Push to external mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Verify throttling ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update XULRunner wiki pages ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Update symlinks ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE ESR}
• Remove index files ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Get the Browser Choice website updated ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}

Notes

Tracking bug: bug 788317

Release engineer: rail

Buildbot master: buildbot-master12

Build 1

• No l10n changesets for a chemspill
• clobbered release-mozilla-release
• reserved slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master12 ~]$ echo "8" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves 
[cltbld@buildbot-master12 ~]$ cat /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves
8

• Locked for 6 mw32-ix-slaves to bm12. Locked 8 bld-r5-lion slaves to bm12.
• release sanity

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
  -V 15.0.1 --branch mozilla-release --build-number 1 \
  --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-release.py \
  --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-release.py --products firefox,fennec  \
  --dryrun --l10n-dashboard-version=15 localhost:9001

• Complained about ach, mn, and sw being missing, because the l10n dashboard exports beta locales
• Started automation

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
  -V 15.0.1 --branch mozilla-release --build-number 1 \
  --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-release.py \
  --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-release.py --products firefox,fennec  \
  --bypass-l10n-check localhost:9001

• Android signing

# cltsign@signing1
cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C -r default
python2.6 ~/signing-work/mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-release.py --platform android

• Reset the reserved slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master12 ~]$ echo "0" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves 
[cltbld@buildbot-master12 ~]$ cat /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves
0

• I ran this script to create partial snippets to block partial updates fro Mac partner repacks.

#ffxbld@aus3-stagin
~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-15.0.1-build1-mac-partner-block-test

• pushed snippets

~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-15.0.1-build1
~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-15.0.1-build1-mac-partner-block

• Unthrottled AUS2
• Updated browserchoice website

Build 2 (Mobile only)

• no l10n changesets
• landed configs, tagged

hg tag -f FENNEC_15_0_1_{BUILD2,RELEASE}

• updated and reconfiged the master
• release sanity

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
 -V 15.0.1 --branch mozilla-release --build-number 2 \
 --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-release.py --products fennec  \
 --bypass-l10n-check --dryrun localhost:9001

• started automation
• Android signing

# cltsign@signing1
cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C -r default
python2.6 ~/signing-work/mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-release.py --platform android

• pushed Fennec build2

Bugs Hit

• bug 788912 - bouncer submitter failed. Had to delete products from bounceradmin and rerun the builder
• bug 788883 - Release automation should announce signed android builds
• bug 770996 - partial mars broken for mac partner builds