Releases/Firefox 8.0/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 700013 - sign_android-0.8.sh needs to be smarter about disk space available

Build Engineers

lsblakk - Tracking bug: bug 695722

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: 04778346a3b0

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

• Firefox: link to the l10n-changesets
• Fennec: link to the json

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
	linux
	macosx
	win32

Notes

Build 1

Syncing repos

mozilla-beta -> mozilla-release was done by Christian Legnitto (as well as updating browser/locales/shipped_locales to eliminate non-release locales that were in beta releases mn,sw,csb)

Did l10n repo sync on linux-ix-slave02 as per instructions

Diff mozconfigs

If this is a *.0 beta -> release added to the mozconfig_whitelist for PGO differences in release configs that are known and intentional diff

Preparing to start Automation

• Set clobber for 'any master', 'mozilla-release', 'any builder'
• reserved 10 slaves

echo "10" > master/reserved_slaves_bm07-build1

• Landed automation configs & l10n updates
• Tagged buildbot-configs (production), buildbotcustom (production-0.8), tools (default) with build & release tags

hg tag -f FIREFOX_8_0_BUILD1 FIREFOX_8_0_RELEASE FENNEC_8_0_BUILD1 FENNEC_8_0_RELEASE

• release_sanity dry run

 source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u lsblakk
 -V 8.0 --branch mozilla-release --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-release.py
 --dryrun --products firefox,fennec localhost:9001

dry-run failed verify_l10n_dashboard because the url for the dashboard was https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx8 and the release_sanity looks for https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx8.0

• release_sanity -real-real with -b to bypass the dashboard check

 source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u lsblakk
 -V 8.0 --branch mozilla-release --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-release.py
 --products -b firefox,fennec localhost:9001

• start automation
• not reconfiguring other masters, it's EOD Pacific time on a Friday, sent an email to release@mozilla.com to notify for Monday morning
• returned linux-ix-slave02 to the pool now that l10n repos are synched

E-mail Metrics

Only for beta1 and 1.9.2 releases

E-mail mirrors@mozilla.org

email sent, cc'd release@mozilla.com

Tag

No problems

Bouncer Submitter

No problems

Start autosign

# created in ~/tmp/sign_0.8.sh
PRODUCT=firefox
VERSION=8.0
BUILD=1
TAG=FIREFOX_8_0_RELEASE
REPO='releases/mozilla-beta'
EMAIL=release@mozilla.com
KEYDIR=d:/2011-keys
RELCONFIG=mozilla/release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py

cd ${HOME}/hg-tools/
hg pull && hg up -r ${TAG}
mkdir -p ~/signing-work/${PRODUCT}-${VERSION}/lib/python
cd ~/signing-work/${PRODUCT}-${VERSION}
cp ~/hg-tools/release/signing/* .
rsync -av ~/hg-tools/lib/python/ ./lib/python/
make autosign PRODUCT=${PRODUCT} VERSION=${VERSION} BUILD=${BUILD} REPO=${REPO} EMAIL=${EMAIL} KEYDIR=${KEYDIR} RELCONFIG=${RELCONFIG}

Started auto-sign

bash -xe ~/tmp/sign_8.0.sh 2>&1 | tee sign_8.0.log

Build

Firefox

No problems

Fennec

Android

No problems

Desktop Builds

No problems

Desktop repacks

No problems

Unittests / Talos

1. Look to see that they ran
2. Document any oranges (per platform) for unittests - if possible, try to confirm it's known/random
3. Make sure there's no red/failures that we need to have a dev look at

XULRunner

Source

No problems

Build

No problems

Signing

Copied sign_xulrunner-8.0b6.sh to sign_xulrunner-8.0.sh, altered PRODUCT,VERSION, and BUILD and ran the script No problems

Repacks

Firefox

No problems

Fennec

No problems

Partner Repack

Firefox

Had to force builds on linux,linux64,mac while win32 was successfully triggered

Fennec

N/A for this release, no maemo

Android Signing

First attempt failed because of 0GB disk space available Cleaned up binaries from signed-work and retried, second time no problems filed bug 700013

Android Signature Verification

No problems

Push to external mirrors

if this is a chemspill you will want to ping justdave (or other sysadmin) in #release-drivers 
and ask them to enable CDN

Publish Fennec

Push the files

(only for < 8.0b*) TODO: review as we are going to ask release-drivers about this step

Publish to the Android Market

IMPORTANT - Make sure to follow instructions!

• download multi apk (e.g. multi/fennec-8.0b4.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 symlinks

Once we're signed off on the release channel.

Remove index.html files

If you created them earlier to hide the release.