Releases:Release Post Mortem:2016-01-20

Meeting Details

• 3:30pm ET
• Vidyo - Release Engineering room
• Dial-in:
  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 98225 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 98225 (US)
• #releaseduty on irc.mozilla.org
• https://trello.com/b/MXHaVRcP/release-promotion-meeting

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Release Duty

• FF 44 cycle: jlund/rail (mtabara shadowing)
• FF 45 cycle: mtabara

Misc

• Firefox_44.0b3 and Firefox_44.0b5 skipped for holiday reasons
• there will be NO "What's New Page" for FF 44 release

Shipped

Firefox/Fennec_44.0b8 (jlund/rail)

• No failures of any type, some intermittent stuff:
  • linux/linux64 update verification errors GTK3-related, ignored
  • win32/win64 update verification errors, intermittent, timeout during cleaning, rerunning.

Firefox/Fennec_44.0b9 (jlund/rail)

• No failures of any type

Fennec_44.0b10 (jlund/rail)

• No failures of any type

Thunderbird 44.0b1 (jlund/rail/mtabara)

• Some intermittent failures came up:
  • repack_8/10 failed for Thunderbird 44.0b1 build1 on win32, rerunning
  • Failed to sign Thunderbird.app.tar.gz with dmg, rerunning
  • stalled on repacks for MAC's, rerun all
  • repack_8/10 failed for Thunderbird 44.0b1 build1 on win32, spot instance died - rerunning
  • Thunderbird 44.0b1 build1: failed at thunderbird_postrelease, we had a fix for this but after we tagged the repo. retagged with tip and rerun the post-release step

Ongoing

Firefox/Fennec_44.0 (jlund/rail/mtabara)

• exceptionally, we've got an ongoing Fennec beta 11 (extra Fennec-only beta to see if the latest crash fixes improve the stability situation) that's in the pipeline - contains some hot fixes (google print bug 1240534 and others). Conversation on what we ship on release channel postponed to early next week/next channel mtg.
• pushed desktop Firefox 44.0 build1 to beta channel. There's going to be a follow-up build2. It might be a 43 m-r based release with selectively uplifted sec fixes, not yet decided - awaiting more data on crash-rates IIUC
• Some intermittent failures came up:
  • repack_10/10 complete for Firefox 44.0 build1 on linux, re-triggered
  • Firefox 44.0 build1: failed at repack_7/10 on win32, retry

Roundtable

• mtabara: what's with the Firefox 43.0.4 "partner_repack failed" in release-automation-notifications for linux/linux64/macos64/win32 a week after (14 jan vs 7jan) we shipped it?
• mtabara: friendly reminder that there's dedicated #releaseduty effective last Monday
• mtabara: tracking bugs for FF releases (e.g. FF 44 bug 1214686) contain no information or pointers to how did the release go

Action items

• mtabara: register the #releaseduty with chanserv and set roles for it