ReleaseEngineering:MergeDuty

Mergeduty

Mergeduty is responsible for making sure we're prepared for the next source code uplift.

Note that there are several uplifts involved:

beta->release
aurora->beta
central->aurora

For example, if mozilla-central currently contains Firefox 19, a bug may say "do xyz when FF19 merges to beta". Wait for that uplift to happen, then have the bug owner land the patch.

Be sure to have a clear understanding of which patches are landing for which uplift.

Duties include:

• Making sure bugs attached to merge-day-bug have owners and patches. Mergeduty can write the patches himself, or ask the owner of the bug to write the patch.

• Making sure sections in code marked with "MERGE DAY" have bugs and owners listed. Patches need to be attached to bugs. Mergeduty can write the patches himself, or ask that the owner of the code write the patch.

• The week before uplift, contact owners for all of the above to make a final decision of which bits should be uplifted or not.

• Coordinate landing of all the merge patches with owners. Coordinate deployment with buildduty.

• Create new hg bundles for affected repositories after the merges happen. (force build the bundle builders) (see bug 800280)
  • mozilla-aurora
  • mozilla-beta
  • mozilla-release
  • comm-aurora
  • comm-beta
  • comm-release

• Update bouncer products for nightly and aurora to point to the new version numbers

Next merge days

https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

• bug 842863 Tracking bug for 02-apr-2013 migration work
• bug 842864 Tracking bug for 14-may-2013 migration work
• bug 842865 Tracking bug for 25-jun-2013 migration work
• bug 842866 Tracking bug for 06-aug-2013 migration work
• bug 842868 Tracking bug for 17-sep-2013 migration work
• bug 842870 Tracking bug for 29-oct-2013 migration work
• bug 842872 Tracking bug for 10-dec-2013 migration work

Mergeduty should start looking at patches/owners the week before. NOTE: the tracking bugs themselves should NOT have patches in them. Dependent bugs should be filed for each thing that needs to be uplifted, and assigned to someone with the context to do it properly.

Future Merge Duty Bugs

Move these under tracking bugs once they are created:

ESR 17 EOL

• bug 809314 - Enable enable_pymake for ESR 17+