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: l10n-changesets
• Fennec: json

Tags

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
1	MOBILE80_2011110415_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_8_0_RELEASE, FENNEC_8_0_BUILD1	c85cee638277
	GECKO80_2011110416_RELBRANCH, FIREFOX_8_0_BUILD1 FIREFOX_8_0_RELEASE	67f0ce993976

Build data

Firefox

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux	20111104165243	mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave08	2 hrs, 27 mins
	Linux64		moz2-linux64-slave08	3 hrs, 52 mins
	Mac		moz2-darwin10-slave46	4 hrs, 30 mins
	Windows		mw32-ix-slave11	2 hrs, 53 mins

Fennec

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	android	20111104164606	mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave16	1 hr, 43 mins
	linux		mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave19	1 hr, 10 mins
	macosx		bm-xserve09	2 hrs, 14 mins
	win32		mw32-ix-slave15	1 hr, 30 mins

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

Updated the mozconfig_whitelist PGO difference 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

• start automation

 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

• 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

Source

No problems

Start autosign

# created in ~/tmp/sign_8.0.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 version/build vars 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.