Releases/Firefox 21.0/BuildNotes

Summary

• Who: nthomas
• Tracking: bug 854372
• Bugs encountered:
  • bug 869401 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=869401

Build 1

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Submit to Ship It ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Push Fennec to mirrors ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Apply Throttling ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Verify throttling ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP BETA RELEASE}
• Update XULRunner wiki pages ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Get the Browser Choice website updated ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}

Notes

• merge from mozilla-beta, l10n milestone creation, and ship it submission done by bajaj. Review done by nthomas.
• xulrunner checksums and push_to_mirrors jobs hit hg server errors when cloning the tools repo. The automation retried them successfully

Recover from full signing server disk

(bhearsum)
signing3's disk filled up (bug 869401) and failed the win32 build and many linux repacks. After the server was fixed, I did the following to recover:

• Rebuilt the win32 build (failed to upload symbols, bug 869522, second rebuild was green)
• Used the standalone builder to run the failed repacks for Linux (br bs ca cs csb et eu fa ff mai mk ml mr nb-NO si sk sl vi zh-CN zu) and Linux64 (bn-BD bn-IN bs ca cs es-ES es-MX et eu fa ff hr hu hy-AM id is it lt lv mai mk ml nb-NO rm ro ru si sk sl)
• Once the standalone builders completed, ran "repack complete" builders with force build to get the automation unstuck.