38.0.6 is a Very Special release caused by bug 1171730. We'll be building all of the normal deliverables, but only shipping updates to en-US users on Funnelcake builds (channel=release-cck-mozilla*). This release will also not be shipped on www.mozilla.org. Because of these things we have to set-up extra Balrog rules by hand, so some parts of the checklist do not apply. If you're working on this release please read these notes carefully before taking any actions

Checklist

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set-up test updates (see below)
• Push to mirrors
• Publish updates (see below)
• Post release (see below)

Set-up test updates

After the updates builder runs we did some stuff by hand to get the release-localtest & release-cdntest rules set-up to verify how we'll be shipping this.

• Created Firefox-38.0.6-build1-whatsnew blob by downloading the Firefox-38.0.6-build1 and tweaking it to add actions and openURL (see 38.0.5 blob for an example).
• Updated Firefox-38.0.6-build1 to have "actions": "silent", to suppress in-app whatsnew config
• Reverted product:Firefox, channel:release-cdntest rule back to Firefox-38.0.5-build4. Repeated for release-localtest
• Added new rule for product:Firefox, channel:release-cdntest-cck-mozilla*, locale:'en-US,en-GB,es-ES,es-MX,de,pt-BR,fr,ru,ja,ja-JP-mac', version:<38.0.5, priority:96, mapping:Firefox-38.0.6-build1-whatsnew. (NB: we've done funnelcake for more than en-US in the past, so copying over the list for 38.0.5 whatsnew). Duplicated to release-localtest-cck-mozilla* channel.
• Added new rule for product:Firefox, channel:release-cdntest-cck-mozilla*, priority:95, mapping:Firefox-38.0.6-build1. Duplicated to release-localtest-cck-mozilla* channel.

Priorities from above are quite high because we already have 90 and 92 taken by the regular release channel WNP configuration. Rules snapshot prior to release:

mysql> select rule_id, priority, mapping, product, version, channel, buildTarget, buildID, locale, substr(osVersion,1,20) as osVersion, comment from rules where (product='Firefox' or product is NULL) and (channel in ('release-localtest','release*') or channel like 'release-localtest-cck%' or channel is NULL) order by priority desc;
+---------+----------+--------------------------------+---------+---------+--------------------------------+-------------+---------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| rule_id | priority | mapping                        | product | version | channel                        | buildTarget | buildID | locale                                              | osVersion            | comment                                                                                                            |
+---------+----------+--------------------------------+---------+---------+--------------------------------+-------------+---------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|      69 |      150 | No-Update                      | NULL    | NULL    | release*                       | NULL        | NULL    | NULL                                                | Darwin 6,Darwin 7,Da | OS Blocking rule for de-supported OS' on Release channel                                                           |
|     103 |      120 | No-Update                      | Firefox | <4.0    | release*                       | NULL        | NULL    | NULL                                                | NULL                 | block updates for 3.6 and earlier until we sort out bug 998721, and because they can't handle appVersion style xml |
|      73 |      110 | Firefox-12.0-build1            | Firefox | <10.0   | release*                       | NULL        | NULL    | NULL                                                | NULL                 | watershed                                                                                                          |
|     189 |       96 | Firefox-38.0.6-build1-whatsnew | Firefox | <38.0.5 | release-localtest-cck-mozilla* | NULL        | NULL    | en-US,en-GB,es-ES,es-MX,de,pt-BR,fr,ru,ja,ja-JP-mac | NULL                 | Fix up for bug 1171730                                                                                             |
|     191 |       95 | Firefox-38.0.6-build1          | Firefox | NULL    | release-localtest-cck-mozilla* | NULL        | NULL    | NULL                                                | NULL                 | Fix up for bug 1171730                                                                                             |
|     193 |       92 | Firefox-38.0.5-build4-whatsnew | Firefox | NULL    | release-localtest              | NULL        | NULL    | en-US,en-GB,es-ES,es-MX,de,pt-BR,fr,ru,ja,ja-JP-mac | NULL                 | Pocket locales, bug 1143875                                                                                        |
|      56 |       90 | Firefox-38.0.5-build4          | Firefox | NULL    | release-localtest              | NULL        | NULL    | NULL                                                | NULL                 | NULL                                                                                                               |
+---------+----------+--------------------------------+---------+---------+--------------------------------+-------------+---------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Manually verify updates

Should verify at least the following:

Publish updates

Need to port over the release-cdntest-cck-mozilla* rules. Be very careful, and make sure to verify afterwards with the table above.

• Duplicated https://aus4-admin.mozilla.org/rules#channel:release-cdntest-cck-mozilla%20product:firefox and removed "cdntest-" from the channel names. Checked against the matrix below.

Post release

• Do not run post-release builder, it would update the firefox-latest bouncer entries and synlinks on FTP
• Remove index files from /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0.6 (by hand)

Do NOT update FTP symlinks or "-latest" entries in Bouncer.

Completed using

# ffxbld@stage
cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0.6
find . -name index.html -delete