Releases/Firefox 15.0b5/BuildNotes

Based on checklist version. Be sure to take notes on manual steps and any problems you encounter.

Checklist

• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}

• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

tracking bug: bug 772031
release engineer: Hwine
buildbot master: buildbot-master13

build 1

starting release

• reserved slaves

   [cltbld@buildbot-master13 ~]$ cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
   [cltbld@buildbot-master13 master]$ cat reserved_slaves 
   0
   [cltbld@buildbot-master13 master]$ echo 8 >reserved_slaves 
   [cltbld@buildbot-master13 master]$ !cat
   cat reserved_slaves 
   8

• gather slaves
  • pulled 5 w32 from bm32-build1
• l10n milestones
  • for firefox: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx15_beta_b5
• double landed config changes to production & default
• reconfig bm13-build1 via fabric
• release sanity --dryrun passes:

   PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u hwine \
       -V 15.0b5 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
       --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
       --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py \
       --products firefox,fennec --dryrun localhost:9001

• release sanity kickoff (normal error messages)

   PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u hwine \
       -V 15.0b5 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
       --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
       --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py \
       --products firefox,fennec localhost:9001

Move r5 slaves over

(bhearsum). I noticed that the mac build still hadn't started in the morning because there were no slaves available for it. I moved bld-lion-r5-055 through 058 to bm13 by locking them to slavealloc and rebooting.