Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Release:Release_Automation_on_Mercurial:Starting_a_Release#Land_patches_and_reconfig Land patches and reconfig^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Released by: jhopkins

Bugs Hit

Notes

Build 1

Ship the l10n milestone

• Shipped. URL is https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=tb17_beta_b2

Land config updates / Run release sanity and start automation

• Screenshot of build automation web interface: http://people.mozilla.org/~jhopkins/bug797853/tb17.0b2-config.tiff (not yet submitted)
• Tagged buildbotcustom and tools repos
• Submitting release build request
• Branch field is required. Filled it in as follows: http://people.mozilla.org/~jhopkins/bug797853/tb17.0b2-config-try2.tiff
• [3:29pm EST] Request submitted
• [3:29pm EST] automated checkin: https://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/7c3f19dda1d8
• bhearsum cancels and comments out config bump due to incorrect username
• [3:34pm EST] automated updating and reconfig'ing the masters in progress
• [3:34pm EST] reconfig may be stuck on AWS build master
• Had to unstick the AWS build master by hand, then comment out the reconfig from release runner and run again
• Worked this time, and the release started.

Ready for Release

• [10:17pm EST] "ready for release" email sent by automation.
• [5:41am EST] QA signed off

Push snippets

• [10:34am EST] push to beta channel request received
• [10:37am EST] push started
• [10:46am EST] snippets pushed

Release is complete.