Releases/Thunderbird 16.0/BuildNotes

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Desktop post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}

Notes

Build 1

• Set reserved slaves to 2 (windows is our slowest platform and we only 2 slaves available for repacks, so there's no benefit to end2end time by setting it higher)
  • Ended up setting back to 0 because there were no slaves available to do on-change ESR win32 builds. Sucks.
• Moved 2 64-bit linux ix slaves, 1 64-bit windows slave, and 2 32-bit windows slaves to bm34 to make sure we have enough of the right slaves to do the release.
• Created l10n milestone
• Shipped l10n milestone
• Downloaded l10n changesets from https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=tb16
• Checked in release config + l10n-changesets
• Tagged buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, and tools with THUNDERBIRD_16_0_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• Ran release sanity in dry run mode:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u bhearsum \
 -V 16.0 --build-number 1 --branch comm-release \
 --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-release.py --product thunderbird \
 --l10n-dashboard-version=16 --dryrun localhost:9001

• Passed, ran without --dryrun to start the release.