Releases/Firefox 6.0.1/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:

Build Engineers

aki - Tracking bug: bug 682939

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: 791d19e33b2a

L10N changesets

• Unchanged from 6.0 due to chemspill.

Tags

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
	MOBILE60_2011083008_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_6_0_1_RELEASE, FENNEC_6_0_1_BUILD1	f13f3f7c028e
	GECKO60_2011083006_RELBRANCH, FIREFOX_6_0_1_BUILD1 FIREFOX_6_0_1_RELEASE	41ea1b3fb0a9

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
	maemo5-gtk
	linux
	macosx
	win32

Notes

buildbot-master07

Build 1

• landed mozharness patch
• got r+ for configs patch with 'tbd'.
• set clobberer for any master, mozilla-release, any builder
• reserved 10 slaves

echo "10" > master/reserved_slaves_bm07-build1

• no new l10n changesets for chemspill
• landed patcher-configs patch to not send 6.0.1 to the beta channel

• waiting for 'go'
• got go - 791d19e33b2a
• dual landed configs
• landed on production buildbot-configs, tagged buildbot-configs (production), mozharness, tools, buildbotcustom (production-0.8)
• updated master

make update

• release_sanity noop

cd master
. ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 6.0.1 \
--branch mozilla-release --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-release.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-release.py \
--dryrun --products firefox,fennec localhost:9001 2>&1 | tee aki.out

• that died on l10n-changesets_mobile-release.json [!]

ls -l l10n*json # nothing !
ln -s /builds/buildbot/build1/buildbot-configs/mozilla/l10n*json .
ls -l *json

• rerun:

PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 6.0.1 \
--branch mozilla-release --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-release.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-release.py \
--dryrun --products firefox,fennec localhost:9001 2>&1 | tee aki.out

• passed. looked at aki.out, |rm aki.out|

• start automation:

PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 6.0.1 \
--branch mozilla-release --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-release.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-release.py \
--products firefox,fennec localhost:9001

E-mail Metrics

Emailed with

Firefox,firefox,firefox,6.0.1,6.0.1

Tag

No problems

Start autosign

Saved the following as ~/tmp/sign_6.0.1.sh

PRODUCT=firefox
VERSION=6.0.1
BUILD=1
TAG=FIREFOX_6_0_1_RELEASE
REPO='releases/mozilla-release'
EMAIL=release@mozilla.com
KEYDIR=d:/2010-keys
RELCONFIG=mozilla/release-firefox-mozilla-release.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}

bash -xe sign_6.0.1.sh 2>&1 | tee sign_6.0.1.log

Publish Fennec

Publish to the Android Market

IMPORTANT - Make sure to follow instructions! See 6.0b6's push to Market.