Releases/Firefox 21.0/BuildNotes

Summary

• Who: nthomas
• Tracking: bug 854372
• Bugs encountered:
  • bug 869401 - disk full on signing3

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.

Build 2 (Desktop)

This is a straight rebuild of the same revision as build1 for the AMD crasher problem. We may not ship it, and builds are hidden from the general public to avoid confusion & diluting feedback on build1.

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Submit to Ship It ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• 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

• ship it submission done by bajaj
• review done by nthomas: moved from same revision as build1 to using the same relbranch (GECKO210_2013050704_RELBRANCH)
• xulrunner push_to_mirrors failed because build1 had already been pushed, this is no problem

Things to undo

Due to the 'run build2 while build1 not actually dead' situation there are some things we need to undo:

• repush 21.0build1 snippets after build2 are generated (QA had some issues with this until we repushed build1)

If we end up shipping build1:

• undo release config change, move tags and ensure reconfig before running any builders on build1
• move tags on tools repo back
• move FIREFOX_21_0_RELEASE tag back on to revision 3402fc52312c

Build 2 (Android)

Code change resolving regression from bug 853522

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}

Notes

• bajaj submitted, nthomas review, no issues