Releases/Firefox 3.6.16/BuildNotes

Build Engineers

rail, armenzg- bug 642556

Signed-off Revision(s)

ab4f7fd95593

Tags

Build #	Tag	Changeset
1	FIREFOX_3_6_16_BUILD1	53907aa2199a

Notifications

• We have to notify AV vendors once the signed bits are on candidates directory (for email address and template example, see bug 568884#c15 )
• We have to give mirrors as much notice as possible before pushing to mirrors. This has been 24-72 hours, but has been up to a week in advance. (for email address and template example, see bug 633657 )
• We have to notify infra-all@ before "go to build" and before we ship. The more advance notice the better.
• We have to notify metrics once we release

Build data

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

Build 1

• Clobbered "pm03:8010/1.9.2/Any builder"
• Pushed buildbot-configs http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/8bdfaab502b5 and merged to production branch: http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/1bfa63aa0c43
• tagged using FIREFOX_3_6_16_BUILD1 and FIREFOX_3_6_16_RELEASE: buildbotcustom (tip of production-0.8), tools (tip of default), buildbot-configs (tip of production)
• updated /tools/buildbotcustom/buildbotcustom, /builds/buildbot/configs, and /builds/buildbot/builder_master/tools to latest
• reserved 6 slaves:

echo 6 >reserved_slaves_pm03

• kicked off automation with:

PYTHONPATH=/builds/buildbot/builder_master:/builds/buildbot/builder_master/tools/lib/python python \
/builds/buildbot/builder_master/tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py \
-u rail -V 3.6.16 --branch mozilla-1.9.2 --build-number 1 \
-c release-firefox-mozilla-1.9.2.py --dryrun localhost:9010

Tag

No problems.

Update Bouncer

Triggered by automation. No problems.

Source / XULRunner Source

No problems.

Remove en-US.xpi

You want to remove the en-US.xpi before autosigning creates the MD5SUMS and the SHA1SUMS.

Please remove this section once bug 628795 is fixed.

Start autosigning

Set up autosinging using instructions

Signing

Followed CombinedSigning doc.

Notify AV vendors

• Notify vendors using instructions in bug 568884#c15

L10n Verify

Nothing wrong on the logs.

Push to Beta Channel

We'll need to unthrottle the beta channel after pushing the beta snippets, because there will be a throttled 3.6.15 --> 4.0 major update present until we overwrite it. This is done by adding an exception for 'beta' in config-dist.php's $throttleExceptions array. Please also add throttling of 3.6.16, with betatest and releastest in the exceptions block, in preparation for major updates out of 3.6.16.

Email mirrors about release day date

See Notifications section for more details.