DOM Inspector/Releases/Checklist
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This is a snapshot of the page, documenting a future process. Some things will not work with the current state of the DOM Inspector repository.
DOM Inspector release day
DOM Inspector releases are prepared from a release branch. Get there by doing updating to the branch point of the latest branch, then updating the working directory to the tip of the branch:
$ hg update DOMI_LATEST_BRANCH && hg update
From there the release process is as follows:
- Verify that the maxVersion strings in install.rdf on the release branch for all applications match the versions that correspond to the current nightlies derived from mozilla-central. (This shouldn't be necessary if you've already done everything you're supposed to do on the last merge day.)
- Change the makefile to reflect the new version number. Use the tracking bug for that release in your commit.
- e.g., when releasing DOMi 2.0.12, you would change it from 2.0.12pre to 2.0.12 on the DOMI_2_0_12 branch. The commit message would be "Bug 738048 - (DOMi2.0.12) DOM Inspector 2.0.12". See changeset c42fd9baba56.
- Add a version-specific tag and a DOMI_LATEST_RELEASE tag
- e.g.,
$ hg tag DOMI_2_0_12_RELEASE
$ hg tag -r DOMI_2_0_12_RELEASE DOMI_LATEST_RELEASE
- e.g.,
- Build it
- Download the latest mozilla-central release source drop
- e.g., get it from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/source
- This should work with other, non-Firefox mozilla-central project source drops since we're not actually going to build the application; we're just going to leverage the mozilla build system. It's just that the Firefox ftp directory includes a "latest" symlink, and others don't.
- Extract the source drop
- e.g., :~/src$ tar xjf ./firefox-12.0.source.tar.bz2
- Drop dom-inspector into the extensions directory
- Clone the repo there
- :~/src/mozilla-release/$ hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/dom-inspector ./extensions/inspector
- Update to the release branch
- :~/src/mozilla-release/$ hg update -R ./extensions/inspector DOMI_LATEST_RELEASE
- Alternatively, you can mv/cp/hg archive the repository you were working from before, but I usually clone a new one for good measure, since the dom-inspector repo is so small.
- Clone the repo there
- Edit the .mozconfig to enable DOM Inspector in the build (and nothing else)
- ac_add_options --enable-application=extensions
ac_add_options --enable-extensions=inspector
- ac_add_options --enable-application=extensions
- Start the build
- :~/src/mozilla-release/$ make -f ./client.mk
- Fish out the XPI from $MOZOBJDIR/dist/xpi-stage
- e.g., ~/src/mozilla-release/objdir-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist/xpi-stage/inspector-2.0.12.xpi
- Download the latest mozilla-central release source drop
- Prepare the release notes
- find the dependent bugs for release bug
- e.g., bug DOMi2.0.12
- it's easy to copy and paste if you look at the dependency tree for the bug, at max depth 1, showing resolved
- Ignore the tracking bug for the previous release; don't copy it into the release notes.
- The notes take this form:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="URL"
title="Bug bug id - bug summary">Bug bug id</a> - bug summary (patch by contributor)
</li>
</ul>
Localization fixes:
<ul>
<li>Language: Contributor</li>
</ul> - feel free to add explanatory text or additional prose above or below the notes
- find the dependent bugs for release bug
- Submit it to AMO
- Paste the release notes
- Ping someone in #addons for review
- Leave a comment in the release bug about the AMO status
- RESOLVE the bug when it gets reviewed and is made available on AMO