Releases/Firefox 21.0b2/BuildNotes

Summary

• Who: hwine
• Tracking bug: bug 854367
• bugs encountered
  • some minor UI enhancements for ship-it (bug 860074, bug 860078, and bug 860080)

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

Desktop

First part of build 1 is desktop only

• l10n & ship-it handled by :bajaj
• Release approved
  • release runner failed due to 2 hosts not yet in DNS
  • Backed out config bumps on default and production, removed the tags by hg tag --remove. Removed tags in tools and custom as well.
  • Hal reapproved the submission
• Automation completed without incident
• Desktop update snippets pushed
• Bouncer updated
• Post release done

Desktop Complete

Fennec

Fennec done separately

• l10n & ship-it handled by :bajaj
• Release automation ran without issues
• Published without major issue
  • some "unexpected error occurred, try again later" messages from Google Play
• Push to mirrors ran without incident.

Fennec only Build 2

Summary

• Who: Callek
• Tracking bug:
• bugs encountered

Checklist

• 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}

Push Fennec (to mirrors) failed

-bash-4.1$ ./push_fennec.sh
+ set -e
+ [[ 21.0b2 != 21.0 ]]
+ export LATEST=latest-beta
+ LATEST=latest-beta
+ mkdir /home/ftp/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/21.0b2
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/ftp/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/21.0b2': File exists
-bash-4.1$ mv /home/ftp/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/21.0b2{,-bad}
-bash-4.1$ ./push_fennec.sh
# .......................
sent 112174858 bytes  received 205 bytes  4233021.25 bytes/sec
total size is 112160451  speedup is 1.00
+ cd /home/ftp/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases
+ rm latest-beta
+ ln -s 21.0b2 latest-beta