Releases/Firefox 14.0.2/BuildNotes

Notes About Releasing

Please update the Notes Template and the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed

Build Engineers

rail - Tracking bug: bug 779518

Signed-off Revision(s)

• Build 1: b96eb495bfe5
• Build 2: d140ff75233b

L10N changesets

None

Tags

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

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
1	MOBILE1402_2012080109_RELBRANCH FENNEC_14_0_2_BUILD1 FENNEC_14_0_2_RELEASE	9109310c222e

Build data

Fennec

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	android	20120801091601	linux-ix-slave39	52 mins, 51 secs
2	android

Notes

Build 1

Set reserved slaves

• set reserved_slaves to 8:

# cltbld@buildbot-master12
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
echo 8 > master/reserved_slaves

Preparing to start Automation

• set a clobber for any master, release-mozilla-release, any builder as a speed up
• Landed buildbot-configs
• Tagged buildbotcustom, tools, configs

hg tag FENNEC_14_0_1_{RELEASE,BUILD1}

• Updated and reconfiged buildbot-master12:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1
source bin/activate
make update checkconfig
python buildbot-wrangler.py reconfig /builds/buildbot/build1/master

• Ran release sanity in dry run mode:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
   -V 14.0.2 --branch mozilla-release --build-number 1 \
   --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-release.py --products fennec  \
    --l10n-dashboard-version 14.0.1 --dryrun localhost:9001

• Reran the command above without --dryrun

E-mail Metrics

Sent the following mail to metrics-alerts@mozilla.org:

Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,14.0.2,14.0

Tag

OK

Source

Ok

Build

Fennec

OK

Fennec repacks

Ok

Android Signing

# cltsign@signing1
cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C -r default
python2.6 ~/signing-work/mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-release.py --platform android

Reset reserved slaves

# cltbld@buildbot-master12
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
echo "0" > master/reserved_slaves

Build 2

Set reserved slaves

• set reserved_slaves to 4:

# cltbld@buildbot-master12
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
echo 4 > master/reserved_slaves

Preparing to start Automation

• set a clobber for any master, release-mozilla-release, any builder as a speed up
• Landed buildbot-configs
• Tagged buildbotcustom, tools, configs

hg tag FENNEC_14_0_1_{RELEASE,BUILD2}

• Updated and reconfiged buildbot-master12:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1
source bin/activate
make update checkconfig
python buildbot-wrangler.py reconfig /builds/buildbot/build1/master

• Ran release sanity in dry run mode:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
   -V 14.0.2 --branch mozilla-release --build-number 2 \
   --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-release.py --products fennec  \
    --l10n-dashboard-version 14.0.1 --dryrun localhost:9001

• Reran the command above without --dryrun

Tag

ok

Source

ok

Build

Fennec

ok

Fennec repacks

Repack jobs 3 and 5 (of 6) both timed out taking more than 20 minutes to clone mozilla-release:

18:38:55     INFO - hg share works.
18:38:55     INFO - Updating shared repo
18:38:55     INFO - Cloning http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release to /builds/hg-shared/releases/mozilla-release.
18:38:55     INFO - Running command: ['hg', '--config', 'ui.merge=internal:merge', 'clone', 'http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release', '/builds/hg-shared/releases/mozilla-release']
18:38:55     INFO - Copy/paste: hg --config ui.merge=internal:merge clone http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release /builds/hg-shared/releases/mozilla-release

command timed out: 1200 seconds without output, attempting to kill

Used rebuild button on both.

Android Signing

• TODO

# cltsign@signing1
cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C -r default
python2.6 ~/signing-work/mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-release.py --platform android

Reset reserved slaves

# cltbld@buildbot-master12
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
echo 0 > master/reserved_slaves

Release Day

Publish Fennec to the Play Store (for beta releases and release releases)

Once built and signed off by QA this build should be uploaded to the Google Play store and activated *alongside* the 14.0.1 Firefox for Android apk to ensure that users coming to download are getting offered the correct builds.