Releases/Thunderbird 14.0b1/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

kmoir - Tracking bug: bug 758758

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1:

• comm-beta: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/???
• mozilla-beta: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/???

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

• Thunderbird: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=tb14_beta_b1

Tags

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

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
1	GECKO130_2012XXXXXX_RELBRANCH THUNDERBIRD_14_0b1_BUILD1 THUNDERBIRD_14_0b1_RELEASE	X
	GECKO130_2012XXXXXX_RELBRANCH THUNDERBIRD_14_0b1_BUILD1 THUNDERBIRD_14_0b1_RELEASE	X

Build data

Thunderbird

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux
	Linux64
	Mac
	Windows

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
• Reserve slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master34 master]$ echo "10" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves

• 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)

# tbirdbld@stage
cd /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/
mkdir ../candidates/14.0b1-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/14.0b1-candidates 14.0b1-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)
  • hg tag THUNDERBIRD_14_0b1_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• update and reconfigure the master

# this removed all local changes
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
make update && make checkconfig && python buildbot-wrangler.py reconfig `pwd`/master

• start automation

cd /builds/buildbot/build1
source bin/activate
buildbot sendchange --username=kmoir --master localhost:9001 --branch=releases/comm-beta \
  --comments "THUNDERBIRD 14.0b1 BUILD 1" -p products:thunderbird \
  -p script_repo_revision:THUNDERBIRD_14_0b1_BUILD1 release_build

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

Manual patch + reconfig

• After several attempts at this (sans reconfig), we went with the

make update && make checkconfig && python buildbot-wrangler.py reconfig `pwd`/master

that inadvertently blew away local changes.

• Aki logged into bm34, applied the .diff files

-rw-rw-r-- 1 cltbld cltbld 2291 May 12 20:29 buildbot-configs/disable-depnightly.diff
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cltbld cltbld  465 May 29 08:22 buildbot-configs/only-thunderbird-builds.diff
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cltbld cltbld 1941 Jun  5 09:09 buildbot-configs/tb13-final.diff
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cltbld cltbld  460 Jun  5 09:09 buildbotcustom/tb13-final.diff

in chronological order, via

cd buildbot-configs
patch -p1 < disable-depnightly.diff
# edited to deal with bitrot
patch -p1 < only-thunderbird-builds.diff
patch -p1 < tb13-final.diff # didn't re-apply the already-applied portion
hg diff > ../aki-configs.diff
cd ../buildbotcustom
patch -p1 < tb13-final.diff
cd ..
make checkconfig
make reconfig

• Aki edited the /builds/buildbot/build1/Makefile to no longer |make update| by renaming the target to |update-will-wipe-local-changes|.

• We then found an errant :1 at the end of the l10n-changesets (zh-TW), uncaught because we didn't run release-sanity (not in the previous beta's relnotes)
• Removed, double-landed, re-tagged.
• Aki tried to reconfig, then had to |make stop| and |make start|
• Aki manually tagged/branched zh-TW

# cltbld@linux-ix-slave14
cd /builds/slave/rel-comm-beta-thunderbird-tag/zh-TW/
hg pull
hg out
hg update -C -r 74cf6875e7c5
hg branch
hg branch GECKO140_2012060613_RELBRANCH
hg branch
hg tag -r 74cf6875e7c5 -f THUNDERBIRD_14.0b1_BUILD1 THUNDERBIRD_14.0b1_RELEASE
hg out
hg push -e 'ssh -l tbirdbld -i ~cltbld/.ssh/tbirdbld_dsa' --new-branch ssh://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-beta/zh-TW

• Handed off to nthomas to patch bm34, since there were a number of issues.
• Reduced the local diff to:

[cltbld@buildbot-master34 build1]$ for r in buildbot-configs buildbotcustom tools/; do hg -R $r diff; echo; done
diff -r c3fba09cd5d5 mozilla/builder_master.cfg
--- a/mozilla/builder_master.cfg	Wed Jun 06 17:01:39 2012 -0400
+++ b/mozilla/builder_master.cfg	Wed Jun 06 15:03:37 2012 -0700
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@
 import passwords
 reload(passwords)
 
+ACTIVE_BRANCHES = []
+ACTIVE_THUNDERBIRD_BRANCHES = []
+ACTIVE_PROJECTS = []
+
 for branch in ACTIVE_BRANCHES:
     branchObjects = generateBranchObjects(BRANCHES[branch], branch,
             getattr(passwords, 'secrets', None))
diff -r c3fba09cd5d5 mozilla/production_config.py
--- a/mozilla/production_config.py	Wed Jun 06 17:01:39 2012 -0400
+++ b/mozilla/production_config.py	Wed Jun 06 15:03:37 2012 -0700
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
                  ['linux-ix-slave%02i' % x for x in [1,2,6] + range(12,43)]
 LINUX64_VMS    = ['bld-centos5-64-vmw-%03i' % x for x in range(1, 7)]
 LINUX64_IXS    = ['linux64-ix-slave%02i' % x for x in range(3,22)]
-WIN32_IXS      = ['mw32-ix-slave%02i' % x for x in range(2,16) + [20, 26]]
+#WIN32_IXS      = ['mw32-ix-slave%02i' % x for x in range(2,16) + [20, 26]]
+WIN32_IXS      = ['mw32-ix-slave02', 'mw32-ix-slave05', 'mw32-ix-slave10']
 WIN64_IXS      = ['w64-ix-slave%02i' % x for x in range(6,22) + range(22,25) + range(64,85)]
 WIN64_METRO    = ['w64-ix-slave%02i' % x for x in [22,40,42]]
 MOCK_DL120G7   = ['bld-centos6-hp-%03d' % x for x in range(6,24)] # 5 staging, 17 prod, 17 try
diff -r c3fba09cd5d5 mozilla/release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py
--- a/mozilla/release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py	Wed Jun 06 17:01:39 2012 -0400
+++ b/mozilla/release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py	Wed Jun 06 15:03:37 2012 -0700
@@ -131,3 +131,5 @@
 # Misc configuration
 releaseConfig['enable_repo_setup'] = False
 releaseConfig['enableAutomaticPushToMirrors'] = True
+
+releaseConfig['skip_tag'] = 1

and reconfiged.

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Tag

See above for problems, ended up being run multiple times.