Releases/Firefox 18.0b2/BuildNotes

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Land patches and reconfig^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP BETA RELEASE}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Bugs Hit

bug 816077 - bug 813757 caused us to run update packaging commands for android release builds

Notes

Build 1

(bhearsum started this off)

• Created Fennec and Firefox milestones
• Submitted data to release kickoff, kmoir reviewed it
• Release runner bumped everything, ran release sanity, and started the release.

Fix Android Builds

They failed due to bug 816077. Landed the patches in that bug, retagged with FENNEC_18_0b2_{BUILD1,RELEASE}, reconfiged the build masters, and rebuilt the failed builders.

Fix win32 xulrunner build

Win32 xulrunner build failed to upload symbols because of keys. Rebuilt the build on a different slave and filed bug 816097 on the key issue.

Android Signing

Followed instructions