Releases/Firefox 9.0b6/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

lsblakk - Tracking bug: bug 700907

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: d2f1a400e430

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

• Firefox: l10n-changesets
• Fennec: json

Tags

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
	MOBILE80_#_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_VERSION_RELEASE, FENNEC_VERSION_BUILD1	#
	GECKO80_#_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

N/A

Diff mozconfigs

N/A

Preparing to start Automation

• Set clobbers for the appropriate masters. Any master, mozilla-beta, any builder.
• Reserve slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master08 ~]$ echo 8 > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves_bm08-build1

• Updated l10n changesets for desktop, mobile
• Landed automation configs on both default/production
• Tagged buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags

hg tag -f FIREFOX_9_0b6_RELEASE FIREFOX_9_0b6_BUILD1 FENNEC_9_0b6_BUILD1 FENNEC_9_0b6_RELEASE

• updated and reconfigured the master
• dry run of automation

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u lsblakk -pfirefox,fennec 
-V 9.0b6 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py 
-c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --dryrun localhost:9001

• started automation

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u lsblakk -pfirefox,fennec 
-V 9.0b6 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py 
-c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py localhost:9001

E-mail Metrics

Firefox,firefox,firefox,9.0b6,9.0
Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,9.0b6,9.0

Tag

No problems

Start autosign

NOTE: use new signcode keys from d:/2011-keys

Instructions are in CombinedSigning

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

Signing

NOTE: use new signcode keys from d:/2011-keys

Android Signing

Instructions in [MobileSigning https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:MobileSigning]

NOTE: It can be started in a different Windows without having to wait for Firefox signing to finish.

Push files to internal mirrors

Mirrors Policy

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 to the Android Market

Push the files

run push_fennec_{beta,release}.sh on stage

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.