Releases/Firefox 8.0b5/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

rail - Tracking bug: bug 695655

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: fc2bb0c7af44

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

• Firefox: firefox
• Fennec: fennec

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 (only for < 8.0b*)
	linux
	macosx
	win32

Notes

Build 1

Master: buildbot-master08.build.sjc1.mozilla.com

Syncing repos

N/A

Diff mozconfigs

N/A

Preparing to start Automation

• Set clobbers for the appropriate masters
• reserved slaves

echo "10">  master/reserved_slaves_bm08-build1

• Update l10n changesets for desktop, mobile
• Land automation configs
• Tag buildbot-configs (production), buildbotcustom (production-0.8), tools with {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_8_0b5_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• update and reconfigure the master

make update && make checkconfig && make reconfig

• release sanity

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail -pfirefox,fennec -V 8.0b5 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --dryrun  localhost:9001

It failed, see [1] for the details

• start automation

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail -pfirefox,fennec -V 8.0b5 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py localhost:9001

• update and reconfigure other masters (optional, or ask the buildduty person to do this)

E-mail Metrics

N/A

E-mail mirrors@mozilla.org

N/A

Build

Fennec

Maemo5-GTK

N/A

XULRunner

Signing

NOTE: use new signcode keys from d:/2011-keys (fix docs)

Maemo5-GTK repos

N/A

Push index file to mirrors

N/A

Push to external mirrors

N/A

Publish Fennec

Create bouncer entry for maemo

N/A

Push the files

(only for < 8.0b*) really?

Publish to the Android Market

IMPORTANT - Make sure to follow instructions!

• download multi apk (e.g. multi/fennec-8.0b5.multi.eabi-arm.apk)
• visit https://market.android.com/publish
• choose "Firefox Beta" or "Firefox"
• select the "APK Files" tab and choose "Upload APK"
  • choose the multi apk that you downloaded and hit "upload"
    • NOTE: the progress bar does not seem to show progress (at least on Google Chrome)
  • when it finishes uploading, verify VersionCode is build date
  • hit "Save"
• activate new apk (You should see an Error message since both apk's are active)
• deactivate old apk (You should not see the Error message anymore)
• hit "Save"
• If this is a beta 1, go to "Product Details" tab -> Recent Changes, change the url to

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/{VERSION}beta/releasenotes/

• • and hit "Save"

Update XULRunner wiki page

N/A

Push to Release Channel

N/A

Update symlinks

N/A

Remove index.html files

N/A

Update browser choice website

N/A