Releases/Firefox 13.0b3/BuildNotes

Notes About Releasing

Please update the Notes Template and the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed

Bugs hit

Enter any bugs pre-existing or newly discovered and filed during the release:

• bug 753172 - needed to steal darwin10 slaves for the duration
• bug 753053 - missing symlinks on build master for l10n configs
• bug 753226 - release-sanity.py doesn't validate non-optional arguments
• bug 743304 - pre-existing partial mars signing failed due to py26/py27 differences, delaying win32 builds, so QA opened bug 753352 to check on status
• bug 753300 - missing keys/known_hosts on bld-centos6-* machines didn't allow several uploads.

Build Engineers

{hwine} - Tracking bug: bug 744592

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: aa323b98df36

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

• Firefox: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx13_beta_b3
• Fennec: empty dictionary, same as last time

Tags

Manually tag the automation code, then record the generated tags below. (details)

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
1	MOBILE130_2012050817_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_13_0b3_RELEASE FENNEC_13_0b3_BUILD1	64ffbdd90ac0
	GECKO130_2012050817_RELBRANCH, FIREFOX_13_0b3_RELEASE FIREFOX_13_0b3_BUILD1	4f3991db9f8b

Build data

Firefox

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux	20120508180640	linux-ix-slave14	1 hrs, 3 mins, 26 secs
	Linux64		linux64-ix-slave21	1 hrs, 1 mins, 48 secs
	Mac		moz2-darwin10-slave55	3 hrs, 14 mins, 30 secs
	Windows	20120509070325	w32-ix-slave37	3 hrs, 42 mins, 15 secs

Fennec

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	android	20120508174549	n/a	n/a
	android-xul		linux-ix-slave15	47 mins, 22 secs

Notes

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

• Set clobbers for the appropriate masters. Doing this 24-48 hours in advance should speedup the build.
  • clobberer
• Reserve slaves, e.g.:

[cltbld@buildbot-master08 master]$ pwd
/builds/buildbot/build1/master
[cltbld@buildbot-master08 master]$ cat reserved_slaves_bm08-build1 
8

• For build1 only, create a symlink for your $version (eg 11.0b4, 10.0.2esr, 10.0.2, 3.6.27) (until bug 725839 is resolved)

# ffxbld@stage
cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/
mkdir ../candidates/$version-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/$version-candidates $version-candidates

• Update l10n changesets for desktop, mobile
  • Instructions on how to get them
  • dashboard
• double-landed automation configs
• Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags. (details)

 hg tag -f {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_13_0b3_{RELEASE,BUILD1}

• updated and reconfigure the master via fabric

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py --dryrun \
    -u hwine -V 13.0b3 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
    -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py \
    --products firefox,fennec localhost:9001

• start automation ← monitor progress on buildbot (e.g. beta)
  • the same command as above but without the "--dryrun"

E-mail Metrics

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

   Firefox,firefox,firefox,13.0b3,13.0
   Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,13.0b3,13.0

Tag

OK

Bouncer Submitter

OK

Source

OK

Build

Firefox

OK

Firefox repacks

OK

XULRunner

Source

OK

Build

OK

Android Signing

Instructions in MobileSigning

Now run on signing1.

OK

L10N verify

Failed on mac after hy-AM, other platforms okay. This verify step scheduled to be removed (bug 749748), so "mach nicht".

Rest OK

Checksums

OK

Updates

OK

Update verify

OK

Reset reserved slaves

The final release with this naming convention, so just got rid of the file:

    rm reserved_slaves_bm13-build1

Check permissions / AV scan

OK

Push to internal mirrors

OK

automation failure on bld-centos6-hp-* hosts bug 753053, so manually pushed.

Had to reconfig master in middle of run for bug 753300, so uptake monitoring broke. Manually sent "ready for releasetest" emails.

Final verification

Record receipt of "completed_final_verification" emails (1 per platform)

Going to Beta

Run backupsnip

NOTE: Remember to do this at least 2 hours ahead of the expected "go to beta" email. details

 $ cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging/
 $ time ~/bin/backupsnip Firefox-13.0b3-build1

Done in 9 minutes

Push to beta

Wait for "go" from release managers
For Firefox:

• Publish (and record run time here): details
• on completion, email r-d that VERSION updates are live on the beta channel

pushsnip ran in 7m21.799s; email sent to r-d

For Android: no android this release

Wait for confirmation from QA that each of the above releases is okay, then close the tracking ticket.