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These are the steps that will have to be taken in order to officially support a new platform. They don't exactly have to happen in this order but it more or less follows a sequential order and some steps can be followed in parallel.

I will add some bugs and links to have examples.

* Determine tool chain
** TO BE COMPLETED
* Get an imaged machine and make the required tool chain changes
** Document these changes. They will end up going in the [[ReferencePlatforms|"Reference Platforms"]] page
* Generate a build on that machine (ref-image machine) and pass it to QA
* Once the build is approved get IT to clone few machines with it
** File IT bug
* Nagios
** The machines need to have nagios installed
** TO BE COMPLETED
* Mozconfig
** if a new mozconfig is needed (it can't reuse the one of an existing platform) add another entry to configs/{mozilla2/mozilla2-staging}/$new_platform.
** if it can be reused add a symlink
* If the platform supports puppet
** TO BE COMPLETED

* Nightly and dependent builds
** changes to config.py. master1.cfg and master2.cfg
** which branches to turn on this platform for
** you can test that the dependent builds are triggered when you test it on staging
* Testing/baking on staging
** normally staging-master03 is a good environment to leave it on for few days
** you want to see dependent builds to be triggered besides manual triggering

* Try builds
** This is very very important for developers
** This is inter-related with talos
** We are working on adding try as a branch. This section will not be needed

* Talos builds
** Not sure what is involved in here

* Debug builds
** These are on-change builds
** Different mozconfigs
** Maybe some environment variables
** Probably codesighs is enabled by default
** This will require graphserver changes
** graphs-stage DB, graphs DB and graphs repo

* Unit-tests
** We are switching to run unit-tests on talos
** It will be a sendchange to the talos master

* Release builds
** one/two lines changes on release_config.py
** some if statements on Release factories