Releases/Firefox 23.0/BuildNotes

Bugs Hit

• bug 899658 -- changes by bug 853071 caused release-sanity to fail. Comment 18 shows we knew, but no good way to track this kind of change forward.
• bug 773876 -- provisional build 2 -- ISE 500 on hg.m.o with no retry
• bug 901986 -- bouncer entries did not automatically update
• bug 902099 -- no access to t store

Build 1

Fennec

• Ship the l10n milestone
  • done by relman
• Submit to Ship It
  • release sanity failed bug 899658; fixed and job resubmitted
• Publish
  • could not publish to tstore bug 902099
• Push to mirrors

Firefox

Pay close attention to the "Do another build" step, which is needed until bug 865701 is fixed.

• Ship the l10n milestone
  • done by relman
• Submit to Ship It
  • release sanity failed bug 899658; fixed and job resubmitted
• Do another build
  • in progress - started 2013-08-01 1900 PT
  • partner repack build 2 hit bug 773876 -- rebuilt step
  • completed without further incident
• Revert to build1 (based on 22.0)
  • Pushed buildbot-configs
  • Pushed tools
  • Repushed the 23.0build1 test snippets

 # aus3-staging
 cd /opt/aus2/snippets/pushed
 mv Firefox-23.0-build1-test ../staging/Firefox-23.0-build1-test-repush
 pushsnip Firefox-23.0-build1-test-repush

• • Obsolete the production snippets we're not going to use

 mv /opt/aus2/snippets/staging/Firefox-23.0-build2 /opt/aus2/snippets/obsolete/

• • Remove build1 -> build2 snippets. build1 buildid is 20130730113002

 $ cd /opt/aus2/incoming/3/Firefox/23.0
 # verify everything in */20130730113002 is betatest or releasetest
 $ find */20130730113002 -type f | wc -l 
 890
 $ find */20130730113002 -type f | egrep '/(releasetest|betatest)/'  | wc -l
 890
 $ rm -rf */20130730113002

• • reconfigured build and scheduler masters
• Push to mirrors
  • final verification hit a 408 error, green on rebuild
• Apply Throttling
  • reviewed patch on the tracking bug
• Verify throttling
• Run pushsnip
• Update bouncer links
• Post-release tasks
  • Update hosted partner bundles now part of post release
• Get the Browser Choice website updated
  • bug 902128 filed