Releases/Firefox 8.0b4/BuildNotes

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Notes About Releasing

Please update the Notes Template and the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed

Bugs hit

Enter any bugs pre-existing or newly discovered and filed during the release:

Build Engineers

armenzg - Tracking bug: bug 695429

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: dd943de3de11

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

Tags

Build # Branch, Tags Changeset
MOBILE80_#_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_VERSION_RELEASE, FENNEC_VERSION_BUILD1 #
GECKO80_#_RELBRANCH, FIREFOX_VERSION_BUILD1 FIREFOX_VERSION_RELEASE #

Build data

Firefox

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

Fennec

Build # Type Build ID Build machine Time to build
1 android
maemo5-gtk (only for < 8.0b*)
linux
macosx
win32

Notes

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

  • Set reserved_slaves to 6:
# cltbld@buildbot-master08
echo 6 > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves_bm08-build1
  • Requested a clobber for Any master, mozilla-beta, any builder
  • Hit "Ship it" for Firefox & Fennec 8.0b4
  • Update l10n changesets for desktop, mobile
  • Land automation configs
  • Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, tools, mozharness with {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_8_0b4_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
  • Updated master configs, ran checkconfig, reconfiged
  • Ran release sanity:
cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u armenzg -pfirefox,fennec -V 8.0b4 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --dryrun localhost:9001
  • Started the release:
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u armenzg -pfirefox,fennec -V 8.0b4 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py localhost:9001

Tag

Bouncer Submitter

Source

Start autosign

Build

Firefox

Fennec

Android
Maemo5-GTK

(only for < 8.0b*)

Desktop Builds
Desktop repacks

Unittests / Talos

XULRunner

Source

Build

Signing

NOTE: use new signcode keys from d:/2011-keys

Repacks

Firefox

Fennec

Partner Repack

Firefox

Fennec

Firefox Signing

Android Signing

Android Signature Verification

Maemo5-GTK repos

(only applicable to < 8.0b*)

L10N verify

Updates

Update verify

Major Update

Update verify

Socorro Product Data Updates

Reset reserved slaves

Check permissions / AV scan

Push files to internal mirrors

Final verification

Push to beta

Push XULRunner to Mirrors

Update XULRunner wiki page

Push index file to mirrors

Push to external mirrors

if this is a chemspill you will want to ping justdave (or other sysadmin) in #release-drivers 
and ask them to enable CDN

Publish Fennec

Create bouncer entry for maemo

(only for < 8.0b*)

Push the files

(only for < 8.0b*)

Publish to the Android Market

IMPORTANT - Make sure to follow instructions! See 6.0b6's push to Market.


Push to Release Channel

Update symlinks

Once we're signed off on the release channel.

Remove index.html files

If you created them earlier to hide the release.

Update browser choice website

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