Releases/Firefox 12.0b5/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:

• xulrunner source failed with a timeout:

hg -R mozilla-beta bundle --base null -r 08158dc2347a source/xulrunner-12.0b5.bundle

Build Engineers

armenzg - Tracking bug: bug 735389

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: bb3d8a18edd5

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

NOTE: On this release we are going to test https://l10n-dev-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/milestones

• Firefox: link to the l10n-changesets
• Fennec: no changes

Tags

Manually tag the automation code, then record the generated tags below. (details)

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
	MOBILE120_2012041106_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_12_0b5_RELEASE, FENNEC_12_0b5_BUILD1	f07be071ee03
	GECKO120_2012041106_RELBRANCH, FIREFOX_12_0b5_BUILD1 FIREFOX_12_0b5_RELEASE	08158dc2347a

Build data

Firefox

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux	20120411064248	mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave11	1 hrs, 18 mins, 0 secs
	Linux64		linux64-ix-slave05	1 hrs, 15 mins, 42 secs
	Mac		moz2-darwin10-slave17	3 hrs, 33 mins, 57 secs
	Windows		mw32-ix-slave12	3 hrs, 20 mins, 47 secs

Fennec

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	android-xul	20120411064327	mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave19	1 hrs, 1 mins, 16 secs

Notes

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

• Set clobbers for the appropriate masters. Doing this 24-48 hours in advance should speedup the build.
  • clobberer
  • I did "Any master" - "release-mozilla-beta" & "mozilla-beta" - "Any builder"
• Reserve slaves, e.g.:

[cltbld@buildbot-master08 master]$ pwd
/builds/buildbot/build1/master
[cltbld@buildbot-master08 master]$ cat reserved_slaves_bm08-build1 
8

• For build1 only, create a symlink for your $version (eg 11.0b4, 10.0.2esr, 10.0.2, 3.6.27) (until bug 725839 is resolved)

 # ffxbld@stage
 [ffxbld@surf ~]$ cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly
 [ffxbld@surf nightly]$ mkdir ../candidates/12.0b5-candidates
 [ffxbld@surf nightly]$ ln -s ../candidates/12.0b5-candidates 12.0b5-candidates

• Update l10n changesets for desktop, mobile
  • Instructions on how to get them
  • dashboard
• Land automation configs (are you or buildduty going to reconfig? great, merge. otherwise double-land only your configs)
• Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags. (details)
  • Sample command for Firefox 10.0 beta 5 build 1:

hg tag -f FIREFOX_10_0b5_RELEASE FIREFOX_10_0b5_BUILD1
hg tag -f FENNEC_10_0b5_RELEASE FENNEC_10_0b5_BUILD1
# bash shortcut: hg tag -f {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_10_0b5_{RELEASE,BUILD1}

• update and reconfigure the master

# Combined release
cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u armenzg -V 12.0b5 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products firefox,fennec  \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

• start automation ← monitor progress on buildbot (e.g. beta)

E-mail Metrics

Use the address "metrics-alerts < AT > mozilla < PERIOD > org"

Firefox,firefox,firefox,12.0b5,12.0
Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,12.0b5,12.0

Tag

No problems.

Bouncer Submitter

No problems.

Source

No problems.

Build

Firefox

No problems.

Firefox repacks

No problems.

Fennec

No problems.

Fennec repacks

No problems.

Unittests / Talos

details

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

It timed out:

hg -R mozilla-beta bundle --base null -r 08158dc2347a source/xulrunner-12.0b5.bundle

I re-triggered it and it worked.

Build

No problems.

Android Signing

Instructions in MobileSigning

Now run on signing1.

L10N verify

No problems.

Checksums

No problems.

Updates

No problems.

Update verify

No problems.

Reset reserved slaves

Done

Final verification

Record receipt of "completed_final_verification" emails (1 per platform)

Check permissions / AV scan

No problems.

Going to Beta

Run backupsnip

NOTE: Remember to do this at least 2 hours ahead of the expected "go to beta" email. details

# cltbld@aus2-staging
~/bin/backupsnip Firefox-12.0b5-build1

It seems that starting this week we should be doing things from aus3-staging.

# ffxbld@aus3-staging
~/bin/backupsnip Firefox-12.0b5-build1

Push to beta

# ffxbld@aus3-staging
cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-12.0b5-build1

Release Day

Publish Fennec to the Play Store

Push the files

• Use this script and run it as ffxbld@stage (please push you changes prior to using it, and grab latest on stage via curl -O http://hg.mozilla.org/build/braindump/raw-file/tip/releases-related/push_fennec.sh)

Play Store

• Pushed using Google Play web interface.