Funnelcake

TODO

1. ken - create wiki page outlining steps
2. team - fill in steps we feel are missing
3. ken - organize next funnelcake meeting
4. team - discuss documented task list, dates, reasonable release date

Meeting Notes

• 2008-11-24

Next Meeting

• revise task list
• assign dates to major tasks
• file bugs needed
• set up a Q1 schedule for funnelcake

Task List

Steps needed to perform a funnelcake release.

In advance:

1. create repack (Kev)
2. installers to be made available at https://people.mozilla.org/files/partners/mozilla04/3.0.4/ (or something similar). worksheet will be here: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Firefox:Distribution:Funnelcake4.
3. QA testing + signing of release (Tomcat)
4. Repacking (Kev)
5. builds to be made ready for signing at people.mozilla.org:/tmp/funnelcake4-304-signed.tar
6. Build signs (Nick Thomas); now at people.mozilla.org:/tmp/funnelcake4-304-signed.tar
7. signed builds available at https://people.mozilla.org/files/partners/mozilla04/3.0.4/
8. Create all unique pages (e.g., download.html, firstrun, whatsnew) (Wil Clouser)
9. pages available on trunk
10. Page testing and approval by QA (Stephen Donner)
    1. For the following pages, download the en-US builds for Win, Mac, Linux, install, and ensure their first-run pages are instrumented (f=4 or something similar):
       1. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
       2. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html
       3. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html
       4. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
       5. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
          1. en-US links for Win, Mac, Linux should be Funnelcake-instrumented
             1. All other download links should be normal
11. Set-up download servers and enable mirrors (Oremj)
12. builds should be available at something like http://dm-download03.mozilla.org/
13. Double check the builds (Tomcat)

At midnight:

1. Pages pushed to production (Wil Clouser)
2. Pages verified (Stephen Donner)

Day of launch:

1. Change pages back to normal on trunk and stage (Wil Clouser)
2. Verify on authstage once it syncs (Stephen Donner)

At following midnight:

1. Back out to normal pages (Wil Clouser)
2. Change the 3 bouncer entries between 0:00 and 0:01. All Firefox-3.0.4-04 entries should point to the same locations as Firefox-3.0.4 entries. (John O'Duinn)
3. Verify that three entry points all back to serving regular builds on all three platforms (Stephen Donner)

Done!

Bugs Filed

• 468179 -- master bug
• 468181 -- create repack
• 468183 -- QA repack
• 468186 -- sign builds
• 468192 -- create pages
• 468193 -- QA pages
• 468194 -- push live at midnight
• 468522 -- change bouncer entries