Firefox

Build 1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• cancelled at this point

Issues

• shipit failed first invocation of FF (called process error), but I didn't spot anything. A restart after fixing fennec worked. ???

Fennec

Build 1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• cancelled at this point

Issues

• relman's start of fennec failed, due to issues with locale 'my'. Opened bug 1158652 for this.
  • ran modified version of braindump/releases-related/beta2release_l10n.sh
  • restarted in shipit, running

Firefox

• Needed to respin due to bug 1158760 - Wrong branding on the 38 Beta 8
• bug 1159060 - Please purge /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0b8 from the CDNs and origin server cache
• TODO: rerun final verification (retrigger http://buildbot-master77.bb.releng.use1.mozilla.com:8001/builders/release-mozilla-beta-beta_final_verification/builds/3) passed
• To work around the CDN issues we had to:
  • Pointed updates back to beta 6
  • ln -s 38.0b8 38.0b8-2 in /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases on stage
  • modified all bouncer locations to use the new path
  • waited for sentry
  • ran final verification

Build 2

• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Fennec

• Needed to respin due to bug 1158760 - Wrong branding on the 38 Beta 8

Build 2

• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• cancelled at this point

Build 3

Build2 was created using a wrong changeset, had to respin.

NOTE: since building from m-r, using the release (not beta) checklist steps

• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Push to mirrors
• Balrog has NOT been updated for any Fennec 38.0 beta, so not updating.
• Post-release tasks
  • because we're using release configs, had to manually reset symlinks after post release run:

-bash-4.1$ ll latest latest-beta
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ffxbld mobile 6 Apr 15 00:04 latest -> 37.0.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ffxbld mobile 6 Apr 30 03:40 latest-beta -> 38.0b6
-bash-4.1$ ll latest latest-beta
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ffxbld mobile 6 Apr 30 04:39 latest -> 38.0b8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ffxbld mobile 6 Apr 30 03:40 latest-beta -> 38.0b6
-bash-4.1$ ln -sf 37.0.2 latest
-bash-4.1$ ln -sf 38.0b8 latest-beta
-bash-4.1$ ll latest latest-beta
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ffxbld mobile 6 Apr 30 04:39 latest -> 38.0b8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ffxbld mobile 6 Apr 30 03:40 latest-beta -> 38.0b6
-bash-4.1$ unlink latest && ln -s 37.0.2 latest
-bash-4.1$ unlink latest-beta && ln -s 38.0b8 latest-beta
-bash-4.1$ ll latest latest-beta
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ffxbld mobile 6 Apr 30 04:40 latest -> 37.0.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ffxbld mobile 6 Apr 30 04:41 latest-beta -> 38.0b8