Until we're about to ship this page will serve as a spot to put down a rough checklist of what needs to be done to ship.

General Notes

See Thunderbird release docs

Release Engineers

Jhopkins, Standard8, tracking bug: bug 749735

Bugs Hit

Build Data

Not updated

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux	20120420153403	momo-vm-linux-03	1 hrs, 43 mins, 28 secs
	Linux64	20120420153206	momo-vm-linux64-06	1 hrs, 21 mins, 5 secs
	Mac	20120420154114	tb2-darwin10-slave62	3 hrs, 37 mins, 27 secs
	Windows	20120420153905	momo-vm-win2k3-08	1 hrs, 52 mins, 45 secs

Build 1

Signed off revisions

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-release/rev/b5ed052dcc54
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/5bcfa0da3be9
- relbranch: TB_COMM120_20120420_RELBRANCH
L10n: same as 12.0

Start the Build

Preparation

Clobberred comm-release branch at https://clobberer-admin.mozillamessaging.com/ (at the top of the page, choose the production master, comm-release, any builder)
Create release config patch
Add L10N changesets (not required)
Land configs
Tag configs and tools using

hg tag THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_RELEASE THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_BUILD1

Update and reconfig the master

ssh buildbot@momo-vm-03.sj.mozillamessaging.com
cd ~/production/buildbot-configs
hg pull -u
# check if there are local chanes
hg diff
cd /buildbot/production
./buildbot.sh checkconfig
./buildbot.sh reconfig & tail -F buildbot-configs/thunderbird/twistd.log |grep configuration

Start the automation

buildbot sendchange --username=standard8 --master=localhost:9010 --branch=releases/comm-release -m "Thunderbird 12.0.1 build 1 kick 1" doit

Monitor the build progress at http://build.mozillamessaging.com/buildbot/production/ and manage it at https://buildbot-admin.mozillamessaging.com/production/

Tag

First run failed due to hg clone of a l10n repo. Applied the following patch:

diff -r c0094ce41cbf thunderbird/release_master.py
--- a/thunderbird/release_master.py	Sat Apr 28 18:52:35 2012 +0100
+++ b/thunderbird/release_master.py	Sat Apr 28 12:20:45 2012 -0700
@@ -678,11 +678,11 @@
     
     ##### Builders
     repositories = {
-        sourceRepoPath: {
-            'revision': sourceRepoRevision,
-            'relbranchOverride': relbranchOverride,
-            'bumpFiles': [productVersionFile]
-        },
+        #sourceRepoPath: {
+        #    'revision': sourceRepoRevision,
+        #    'relbranchOverride': relbranchOverride,
+        #    'bumpFiles': [productVersionFile]
+        #},
         mozillaRepoPath: {
             'revision': mozillaRepoRevision,
             'relbranchOverride': mozillaRelbranchOverride,

Then checkconfig, reconfig & re-kicked.

E-mail Metrics

Use the address "metrics-alerts < AT > mozilla < PERIOD > org"

Subject: Thunderbird 12.0.1

Thunderbird,thunderbird,thunderbird,12.0.1,12.0

E-mail mirrors@mozilla.org

Not necessary for rapid release betas or ESR builds; files only go as far as the 'internal mirrors'.

Coordinate yourself with the person creating the ESR and the latest release which normally go out at the same time.

They want to know approximately what time push to external mirrors will occur. Ideally this is a 24hr notice to them, with the estimated time.

Subject: Thunderbird 12.0.1 coming to mirrors on Apr 30, 2012
Body:
We're planning on pushing our Thunderbird 12.0 release to mirrors ~24 hours before Tuesday, April 24, 2012.
# If this is a chemspill, please mention that in the email as it will mean pinging 
# for CDN to be enabled when the push to internal mirrors happens

If you believe these releases or these dates will cause any problems,
please notify release at mozilla.com. If you have any problems with mirror
status/weights/etc, please notify mirror-submissions at mozilla.org.

Source

No problems.

Builds

No problems

L10N repacks

Killed one Linux repack (fi) as it had hung on the checking clobber times step for 33 minutes. Re-triggered with:

 check-l10n-release-builds.pl --repo http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-release --branch=release --revision THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_RELEASE --min 218 --max 271 -v --no-dry-run linux

linux sanity check:

 check-l10n-release-builds.pl --repo http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-release --branch=release --revision THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_RELEASE --min 218  --max 272  linux

linux64 sanity check:

 check-l10n-release-builds.pl --repo http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-release --branch=release --revision THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_RELEASE --min 218  --max 271  linux64

Win32 repacks had failed (ar, it, tr) due to hg errors. Re-triggered with:

check-l10n-release-builds.pl --repo http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-release --branch=release --revision THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_RELEASE --min 243 --max 296 -v --no-dry-run win32

win32 sanity check:

 check-l10n-release-builds.pl --repo http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-release --branch=release --revision THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_RELEASE --min 243  --max 313  win32

mac sanity check

check-l10n-release-builds.pl --repo http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-release --branch=release --revision THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_RELEASE --min 218  --max 271   osx

Signing

Using Firefox signing machine
Start signcodepwd

VERSION=12.0.1
BUILD=1
TAG=THUNDERBIRD_12_0_1_RELEASE
REPO=releases/comm-release

PRODUCT=thunderbird
APP_NAME=mail
EMAIL=release@mozilla.com
KEYDIR=d:/2011-keys
RELCONFIG=fake
STAGE_HOST=stage.mozilla.org
STAGE_USERNAME=tbirdbld
CVS_USER=tbirdbld
SSH_KEY=$HOME/.ssh/tbirdbld_dsa

cd ${HOME}/hg-tools/ # if it exists, otherwise create a fresh clone
hg pull && hg up

mkdir -p ~/signing-work/${PRODUCT}-${VERSION}/lib/python
cd ~/signing-work/${PRODUCT}-${VERSION}
cp ~/hg-tools/release/signing/* .
rsync -av ~/hg-tools/lib/python/ ./lib/python/
make tb-all PRODUCT=${PRODUCT} VERSION=${VERSION} \
    BUILD=${BUILD} REPO=${REPO} EMAIL=${EMAIL} \
    KEYDIR=${KEYDIR} RELCONFIG=${RELCONFIG} \
    APP_NAME=$APP_NAME TAG=$TAG \
    STAGE_USERNAME=$STAGE_USERNAME \
    STAGE_HOST=$STAGE_HOST SSH_KEY=$SSH_KEY \
    CVS_USER=$CVS_USER

run the same with "postsign" target

L10N Verify

Updates

12.0 -> 12.0.1 updates generated. 11.0.1 -> 12.0.1 update generation is in progress.

Update Verify

Send a notification email

Let people know what's been done. Note: this is a wide list so keep traffic low.

To: thunderbird-drivers@mozilla.org
Subj: Thunderbird 12.0 build1 is available on test channels

Email sent to Thunderbird-drivers.

DONE TO HERE

Major Updates

Update this part

Configs updated (http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/accd74bba93d)
Updated configs, checkconfig & reconfig on production master
Copied http://stage.mozilla.org//pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/12.0.1-candidates/build1/macosx64_info.txt to http://stage.mozilla.org//pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/12.0.1-candidates/build1/macosx_info.txt
Set clobberer
Forced builder

Major Update Verify

Add to Bouncer

Update this part

pushed a braindump patch
Ran the following

# from my laptoop, in tools/release
$ bash ../../braindump/releases-related/add_thunderbird_to_bouncer.sh 
Adding product: Thunderbird-12.0
Server response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><products><product id="1673" name="Thunderbird-12.0"/></products>
Adding product: Thunderbird-12.0-Complete
Server response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><products><product id="1674" name="Thunderbird-12.0-Complete"/></products>
Adding product: Thunderbird-12.0-Partial-11.0.1
Server response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><products><product id="1675" name="Thunderbird-12.0-Partial-11.0.1"/></products>
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0, linux: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/linux-i686/:lang/thunderbird-12.0.tar.bz2
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0-Complete, linux: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/update/linux-i686/:lang/thunderbird-12.0.complete.mar
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0-Partial-11.0.1, linux: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/update/linux-i686/:lang/thunderbird-11.0.1-12.0.partial.mar
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0, linux64: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/linux-x86_64/:lang/thunderbird-12.0.tar.bz2
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0-Complete, linux64: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/update/linux-x86_64/:lang/thunderbird-12.0.complete.mar
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0-Partial-11.0.1, linux64: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/update/linux-x86_64/:lang/thunderbird-11.0.1-12.0.partial.mar
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0, osx: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/mac/:lang/Thunderbird%2012.0.dmg
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0-Complete, osx: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/update/mac/:lang/thunderbird-12.0.complete.mar
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0-Partial-11.0.1, osx: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/update/mac/:lang/thunderbird-11.0.1-12.0.partial.mar
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0, win: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/win32/:lang/Thunderbird%20Setup%2012.0.exe
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0-Complete, win: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/update/win32/:lang/thunderbird-12.0.complete.mar
Adding location for Thunderbird-12.0-Partial-11.0.1, win: /thunderbird/releases/12.0/update/win32/:lang/thunderbird-11.0.1-12.0.partial.mar

Push to the internal mirrors

Added the following entry to /pub/mozilla.org/zz/rsyncd-mozilla-releases.exclude:

- thunderbird/releases/12.0

# ~/bin/push-release /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/12.0-candidates/build1 /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/12.0

Copy/paste the output and run it (took ~10mins)

Final Verification