Releases/Thunderbird 17.0esr/BuildNotes

Build 1

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Land patches and reconfig^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

Release was started using release-runner (bhearsum/rail), but the l10n-changesets were still handled manually by pointing the url to the release changesets commited to hg.

Build 1

Tagging failed due to race condition, see bug 812606.

Build 3

Automation didn't bump/pick up proper

Build 4

Mark discovered that there is no Thunderbird-17.0esr product in bouncer. I ran the bouncer submitter step manually.

Bugs hit

• bug 812606 - tagging rebase step shouldn't try to fire vim to resolve conflicts
• bug 813072 - Push to mirrors doesn't happen with disabled updates
• bug 812992 - ACCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS and MAR_CHANNEL_ID not updated for Thunderbird in mozilla-esr17