Releases/Thunderbird 14.0b3/BuildNotes

Bugs hit

• bug 757798 - Enabled hgtool.py for many builders. Turns out that it didn't work with repacks, had to back out that part of the patch.

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

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

[cltbld@buildbot-master34 master]$ echo "6" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves

• 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)

# tbirdbld@stage
cd /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/
mkdir ../candidates/14.0b3-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/14.0b3-candidates 14.0b3-candidates

• Update l10n changesets & hit "ship it"

wget -O mozilla/l10n-changesets_thunderbird-beta  https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=tb14_beta_b3

• Land automation configs
• Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags.
  • hg tag THUNDERBIRD_14_0b3_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• update and reconfigure the master
• release sanity dry run

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u coop -V 14.0b3 \
   --branch comm-beta --build-number 1 \
   --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --products thunderbird  \
   --dryrun -m -l localhost:9001

• start automation

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u coop -V 14.0b3 \
   --branch comm-beta --build-number 1 \
   --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --products thunderbird  \
   -m -l localhost:9001

• monitor progress on buildbot, i.e. release-comm-beta

Check that the builds are taken after tagging

• done

Branches glog

• Check that tagging created the branches and document them

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/graph/96128 http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/graph/11884

E-mail Metrics

Use the address "metrics-alerts < AT > mozilla < PERIOD > org". Note for first-time-releasers: your email will get held for moderator approval - that is expected. If it happens more than once, get help on #metrics.

Thunderbird,thunderbird,thunderbird,14.0b3,14.0

l10n repacks

• all repacks failed
  • bhearsum did the following:
    • Repacks failed because bug 757798 added an invalid path to hgtool.py. This patch was double landed (default + production branch) as a fix, and I moved the THUNDERBIRD_14_0b3_{RELEASE,BUILD1} tags to pick it up.
    • After that, the repacks got further along but kept failing because they were trying to update the mozilla-beta repo to 'releases/comm-beta'. It became apparent at that point that hgtool.py was never known to work with repacks, so I backed it out for l10n with this patch.

Reset reserved slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master34 master]$ echo "0" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves

Going to Beta

Run backupsnip

# tbirdbld@aus3-staging
~/bin/backupsnip Thunderbird-14.0b3-build1

Push to beta

# tbirdbld@aus3-staging
~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-14.0b3-build1