Releases/Firefox 17.0/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}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Apply Throttling ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Verify throttling ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• 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

Release was started using release-runner (bhearsum/rail), but the l10n-changesets were still handled manually.

We missed the release config template change prior to starting with release-runner. A couple of rounds of patches (1, 2) with reconfigs sorted that out. bhearsum forced an armv6 build, setting a buildid property with the same value as the armv7 build

The Mac xulrunner build failed with an error creating a symlink in the compile stage, bug 812918. This seems to be an intermittent failure across several branches. Green on rebuild.