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

Bugs hit

Build data

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

Build 1

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.

Build

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

L10n Repack

One of the win32 repacks failed on w32-ix-slave03 (simplejson module missing). See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634428#c4 for the details.

Partner Repack

No problems.

XULRunner Build

No problems.

Unittests

The same results as in Releases/Firefox_3.6.15/BuildNotes#Unittests 3.6.15.

Signing

Followed CombinedSigning doc.

Notify AV vendors

L10n Verify

Linux: red. Ignorable (directory changes).

Updates

3.6* -> 3.6.15

Generation
Update Verify

3.5.x -> 3.6.15 Major Updates

MU Generation
MU Verify

Socorro product data updates

Push to Beta Channel

We'll need to unthrottle the beta channel after pushing the beta snippets, because there will be a throttled 3.6.16 --> 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.

Fix snippets for some locales

Email mirrors about release day date

See Notifications section for more details.

Going live day!

Final checks before push & virus scan

Push to Mirrors

Final Verification

Push release channel snippets

Update download.mozilla.org for EUBallot

Release

XULRunner Signing

Push XULRunner to mirrors

Update XULRunner entries on wiki