Releases/Firefox 8.0b1/BuildNotes

Notes About Releasing

Please update the Notes Template and the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed

Bugs hit

Enter any bugs pre-existing or newly discovered and filed during the release:

• bug - description

Build Engineers

{bhearsum} - Tracking bug: bug 689327

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: 7b8d7d4b1c90

L10N changesets

• Firefox: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx8_beta_b1
• Fennec: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/json-changesets?ms=fennec8_beta_b1&platforms=linux%2C+macosx%2C+win32&multi_maemo-multilocale_repo=mobile-browser&multi_maemo-multilocale_rev=default&multi_maemo-multilocale_path=locales%2Fmaemo-locales&multi_android-multilocale_repo=mobile-browser&multi_android-multilocale_rev=default&multi_android-multilocale_path=locales%2Fmaemo-locales

Tags

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
	MOBILE70_#_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_VERSION_RELEASE, FENNEC_VERSION_BUILD1	#
	GECKO70_#_RELBRANCH, FIREFOX_VERSION_BUILD1 FIREFOX_VERSION_RELEASE	#

Build data

Firefox

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux
	Linux64
	Mac
	Windows

Fennec

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	android
	maemo5-gtk
	linux
	macosx
	win32

Notes

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

• Hit "Ship it" for Firefox & Fennec 8.0b1
• Requested a clobber for Any master, mozilla-beta, any builder
• Landed configs and tagged buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, tools, and mozharness repositories with {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_8_0b1_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• Set reserved_slaves to 10:

# cltbld@buildbot-master08
echo 10 > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves_bm08-build1

• Updated master configs, ran checkconfig, reconfiged.
• Ran release_sanity.py:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u bhearsum -p firefox -V 8.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py --dryrun localhost:9001

• Started the release:

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u bhearsum -p firefox -V 8.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py localhost:9001

Then I realized that I only started Firefox, so did the following to get Fennec going:

• Dry run:

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u bhearsum -V 8.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --dryrun --products fennec localhost:9001

• Starting it:

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u bhearsum -V 8.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products fennec localhost:9001

E-mail Metrics

Sent the following mail:

Firefox,firefox,firefox,8.0b1,8.0
Firefox,firefox,firefox,9.0a2,9.0
Firefox,firefox,firefox,10.0a1,10.0

Publish Fennec

Publish to the Android Market

IMPORTANT - Make sure to follow instructions! See 6.0b6's push to Market.

Update symlinks

Once we're signed off on the release channel.

Remove index.html files

If you created them earlier to hide the release.