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Occasionally a Nightly build is super crashy. When this happens, there are a few things to be done.
Occasionally a Nightly build is super crashy. When this happens, there are a few things to be done.
* First, tell an appropriate person (ping in #releng or maybe #moc) so that updates can be stopped as soon as possible.
* First, tell an appropriate person (ping in [https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#releng:mozilla.org #releng] so that updates can be stopped as soon as possible.
* Then, get a tracking bug (Release Engineering :: General) filed, either by you or the person stopping the updates.
* Then, get a tracking bug (Release Engineering :: General) filed, either by you or the person stopping the updates.
* Then, if the regressing patch can be identified, get it backed out from mozilla-central.
* Then, if the regressing patch can be identified, get it backed out from mozilla-central.
* Then, consider asking an appropriate person (via #sheriffs, #taskcluster, #releng, or the [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sheriffs sheriffs mailing list]) to "respin" Nightly, i.e. rebuild and re-release it. This takes a couple of hours, so is only worthwhile if the next day's Nightly build is still some time off.
* Then, consider asking an appropriate person (via [https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#sheriffs:mozilla.org #sheriffs], [https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#taskcluster:mozilla.org #taskcluster], [https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#releng:mozilla.org #releng], or the [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sheriffs sheriffs mailing list]) to "respin" Nightly, i.e. rebuild and re-release it. This takes a couple of hours, so is only worthwhile if the next day's Nightly build is still some time off.
* Finally, once the issue has been resolved and new Nightly builds are ready to go out to users, contact the person who froze updates in step 1 so that updates can be unfrozen.
* Finally, once the issue has been resolved and new Nightly builds are ready to go out to users, contact the person who froze updates in step 1 so that updates can be unfrozen.
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