Releases/Firefox 17.0b3/BuildNotes

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Release:Release_Automation_on_Mercurial:Starting_a_Release#Land_patches_and_reconfig Land patches and reconfig^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Bugs Hit

• bug 804712 - release sanity failure running sendchange on a master with missing symlink to release_templates
• bug 804901 - release builds shouldn't fail when clobberer is not available

Notes

Build 1

Ship the l10n milestone

Created and shipped the Fennec and Firefox l10n milestones on the l10n dashboard.

Land config updates

• Landed configuration updates
• Tagged buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, and tools with {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_17_0b3_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• Reconfiged build and scheduler masters

Run release sanity and start automation

On buildbot-master36:

cd /builds/buildbot/build_scheduler/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
    -V 17.0b3 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
    --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products firefox,fennec  \
    --dryrun localhost:9301

• Ran the same command without --dryrun
• sendchange returned non zero exit code even though the automation had been started. It turned out that bm36 had no symlinks to release_templates directory. Filed bug 804712. symlinked the directory to the master directory.

Push to mirrors

• Failed because the clobberer was unreachable, filed bug 804901
• Reran the builders

Push snippets

 ~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-17.0b3-build1