Releases/Firefox 44.0/BuildNotes

Fennec

beta 10 build1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Post-release tasks

beta 11 build1

special one off attempt at fixing crash rates:

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Post-release tasks

release build 2

there was no build 1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Push to mirrors
• Post-release tasks

Firefox

Release build 1

• (Releng + Relman) - prior to shipit, determine if there is a WhatsNewPage for the release and comment/uncomment http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/file/bc26f621daa1/mozilla/release-firefox-mozilla-release.py.template#l38
• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page
• Publish RC to Beta channel stopped here for build 2
• Push to mirrors
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Release build 2

• (Releng + Relman) - prior to shipit, determine if there is a WhatsNewPage for the release and comment/uncomment http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/file/bc26f621daa1/mozilla/release-firefox-mozilla-release.py.template#l38
• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page no new whatsnew page this time
• Publish RC to Beta channel
• Push to mirrors
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Issues

build 1

• merge mozconfig issue with mozilla-release and tools whitelist not being updated
  • resolved: Bug 1233262 - add ENABLE_RELEASE_PROMOTION variable to sanity whitelist for mozilla-release

build 2

• update_verify issues: all update_verify_beta on linux, linux64 and macosx64 failed because of a "FAIL: binary files found in diff" sort-of-error. We suspected multiple culprits but in the end it turned out to be, oddly, intermittent. Retriggering all the jobs solved the problem eventually.
• desktop ff - no antivirus? no email. not in pending/recent/running.
  • there is reason to believe antivirus was never ran because of infra issues/downtime bug 1241334 that overlapped with the timing of 44.0 gtb
  • manually re-triggered to force build outside of the release graph
  • initially manual re-triggering failed for a downloading issue, retriggered that once again
    • status: retriggered worked. blame missing antivirus on https://bugzil.la/1241334