Releases/Firefox 21.0b1/BuildNotes

Summary

• Who: coop/nthomas
• Tracking bug: bug 854366
• Bugs Encountered:
  • bug 857279: XULRunner sdk for linux is ~10x the size of the sdk for other platforms
    • bhearsum has already merged the fix from bug 812105. We should ratchet down the max filesize for signing after b2.

Process

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Submit to Ship It ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Push Fennec to mirrors ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP BETA RELEASE}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Build 1

l10n repacks

• linux_repack_2/6 failed
  • corrupted archive, either from initial download or (possibly) from running out of space on slave
  • coop failed to retrigger the builder properly a few times, so the build continued to fail until he found the correct button ('rebuild'). Rebuild was successful.

xulrunner linux

• filed bug 857279: XULRunner sdk for linux is ~10x the size of the sdk for other platforms
  • dupe of bug 812105: XULRunner Linux SDK packages need to go on a diet
    • bhearsum already merged this into beta, so b2 should be much smaller

Update verify

• failed on Windows -> unable to find some updates on betatest
  • failing URLs were all verified as present via manual checks
    • likely due to traffic around the Fx 20.0 release on Tuesday that was in full swing while these builders were running

Final verification

• failed on all platforms
  • failing URLs were all verified as present via manual checks
    • likely due to traffic around the Fx 20.0 release on Tuesday that was in full swing while these builders were running