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 and unlock slaves ^DESKTOP ^MOBILE ^RELEASE ^BETA ^ESR~~
~~Run pushsnip ^DESKTOP ^RELEASE ^BETA ^ESR~~

Bugs hit

bug 794333 - Updates builder doesn't handle push race in tools repo
bug 794335 - Can't run pushsnip for Thunderbird because of permissions on snippets/pushed/

Notes

Tracking bug: bug 786223
Release Engineer: nthomas
Buildbot master: buildbot-master30

Build 1

Starting the automation

l10n changesets file: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=tb16_beta_b3
set reserved slaves to 6 (# of l10n repacks, update verify is only 4 now)
set clobberer for release-comm-beta
landed configs, tagged buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, tools with THUNDEBIRD_16_0b3_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
updated and reconfiged bm30
release sanity

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u nthomas \
     -V 16.0b3 --build-number 1 --branch comm-beta \
     --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --product thunderbird \
     --dryrun localhost:9001

started the automation

Updates

Failed to push configs back, filed bug 794333 and used rebuild on the builder

Failed to run pushnip, filed bug 794335. After the chmod to fix that this manual fix up

# cltbld@mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave21
cd /builds/slave/tb-rel-c-beta-updates/build
python /builds/slave/tb-rel-c-beta-updates/tools/buildfarm/utils/retry.py -s 1 -r 5 -t 7260 \
  ssh -t -l tbirdbld '-oIdentityFile=~/.ssh/auspush' aus3-staging.mozilla.org \
  '~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-16.0b3-build1-test'

cd /builds/slave/tb-rel-c-beta-updates/
python /builds/slave/tb-rel-c-beta-updates/tools/buildfarm/utils/retry.py -s 1 -r 5 -t 1260 \
  rsync -av -e 'ssh -oIdentityFile=~/.ssh/auspush' \
  aus2/ tbirdbld@aus3-staging.mozilla.org:/opt/aus2/snippets/staging/Thunderbird-16.0b3-build1
bash /builds/slave/tb-rel-c-beta-updates/tools/release/compare-channel-snippets.sh \
  aus2 beta aus2.test releasetest

Then forced update verify builders (from local machine)

for p in linux linux64 macosx64 win32; do
  for i in 1 2 3 4; do
    curl "http://buildbot-master30.build.mozilla.org:8001/builders/release-comm-beta-${p}_update_verify_${i}%2F4/force" > /dev/null
    sleep 5
  done
done

Manual email announcing updates available, forced release-comm-beta-start_uptake_monitoring builder.

Reset reserved slaves

echo "0" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves

Pushsnip

~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-16.0b3-build1

Releases/Thunderbird 16.0b3/BuildNotes

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