Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Reset reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

Tracking bug: bug 786222

Build 1

• set clobberer for release-comm-beta
• set the reserved slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master30 ~]$ echo "8" >/builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves 
[cltbld@buildbot-master30 ~]$ cat /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves
8

• shipped locales
• landed configs, tagged repos
• updated and reconfigured
• release sanity

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
     -V 16.0b2 --build-number 1 --branch comm-beta \
     --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --product thunderbird \
     --dryrun localhost:9001

• started automation
• Reset the reserved slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master30 ~]$ echo "0" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves 
[cltbld@buildbot-master30 ~]$ cat /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves
0

Pushsnip

$ ssh tbirdbld@aus3-staging.mozilla.org
$ cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
$ ~/bin/backupsnip Thunderbird-16.0b2-build1
$ ~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-16.0b2-build1