Releases/Firefox 44.0/BuildNotes

Fennec

beta 10 build1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Post-release tasks

beta 11 build1

special one off attempt at fixing crash rates

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Post-release tasks

release build 2

there was no build 1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Push to mirrors
• Post-release tasks

Firefox

Release build 1

• (Releng + Relman) - prior to shipit, determine if there is a WhatsNewPage for the release and comment/uncomment http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/file/bc26f621daa1/mozilla/release-firefox-mozilla-release.py.template#l38
• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page
• Publish RC to Beta channel stopped here for build 2
• Push to mirrors
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Release build 2

• (Releng + Relman) - prior to shipit, determine if there is a WhatsNewPage for the release and comment/uncomment http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/file/bc26f621daa1/mozilla/release-firefox-mozilla-release.py.template#l38
• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page no new whatsnew page this time
• Publish RC to Beta channel gave up here for build3

Release build 3

• (Releng + Relman) - prior to shipit, determine if there is a WhatsNewPage for the release and comment/uncomment http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/file/bc26f621daa1/mozilla/release-firefox-mozilla-release.py.template#l38
• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page no new whatsnew page this time
• Publish RC to Beta channel
• Push to mirrors
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Issues

build 1

• merge mozconfig issue with mozilla-release and tools whitelist not being updated
  • resolved: Bug 1233262 - add ENABLE_RELEASE_PROMOTION variable to sanity whitelist for mozilla-release

build 2

• update_verify issues: all update_verify_beta on linux, linux64 and macosx64 failed because of a "FAIL: binary files found in diff" sort-of-error. We suspected multiple culprits but in the end it turned out to be, oddly, intermittent. Retriggering all the jobs solved the problem eventually.
• desktop ff - no antivirus? no email. not in pending/recent/running.
  • there is reason to believe antivirus was never ran because of infra issues/downtime bug 1241334 that overlapped with the timing of 44.0 gtb
  • manually re-triggered to force build outside of the release graph
  • initially manual re-triggering failed for a downloading issue, retriggered that once again
    • status: retriggered worked. blame missing antivirus on https://bugzil.la/1241334

build 3

• bhearsum manually synced the SDKs to the releases dir due to bug 1243740 with the following local patch applied:

diff --git a/testing/mozharness/scripts/release/push-candidate-to-releases.py b/testing/mozharness/scripts/release/push-candidate-to-releases.py
--- a/testing/mozharness/scripts/release/push-candidate-to-releases.py
+++ b/testing/mozharness/scripts/release/push-candidate-to-releases.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class ReleasePusher(BaseScript, Virtuale
             self.config["excludes"] = [
                 r"^.*tests.*$",
                 r"^.*crashreporter.*$",
-                r"^.*\.zip(\.asc)?$",
+                r"^.*[^k]\.zip(\.asc)?$",
                 r"^.*\.log$",
                 r"^.*\.txt$",
                 r"^.*/partner-repacks.*$",
@@ -134,10 +134,10 @@ class ReleasePusher(BaseScript, Virtuale
 
         # ensure the destination is empty
         self.info("Checking destination {} is empty".format(self._get_releases_prefix()))
-        keys = [k for k in bucket.list(prefix=self._get_releases_prefix())]
-        if keys:
-            self.fatal("Destination already exists with %s keys, aborting" %
-                       len(keys))
+        #keys = [k for k in bucket.list(prefix=self._get_releases_prefix())]
+        #if keys:
+        #    self.fatal("Destination already exists with %s keys, aborting" %
+        #               len(keys))
 
         def worker(item):
             source, destination = item
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ class ReleasePusher(BaseScript, Virtuale
             self.info("Getting key names from candidates")
             for key in bucket.list(prefix=candidates_prefix):
                 keyname = key.name
-                if self._matches_exclude(keyname):
+                if self._matches_exclude(keyname) or 'sdk' not in keyname:
                     self.debug("Excluding {}".format(keyname))
                 else:
                     destination = keyname.replace(candidates_prefix,

And the following command:

python2.7 scripts/release/push-candidate-to-releases.py --product firefox --version 44.0 --build-number 3 --bucket net-mozaws-prod-delivery-firefox --credentials /builds/release-s3.credentials