Releases/Firefox 16.0b2/BuildNotes

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

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• 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}
• 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 782985

Release engineer: rail

Buildbot master: buildbot-master13

Build 1

• l10n changesets https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx16_beta_b2

• clobbered release-mozilla-beta

• reserved slaves

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

• shipped l10n changesets
• landed release configs, and tagged

  hg tag -f {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_16_0b2_{RELEASE,BUILD1}

• reconfig

make update checkconfig && python buildbot-wrangler.py reconfig /builds/buildbot/build1/master/

• Dry run

(build1)[cltbld@buildbot-master13 master]$ PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
   -V 16.0b2 --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

• mozconfig differences are acceptable - reopened bug 786278 to adjust the whitelists
• started automation

(build1)[cltbld@buildbot-master13 master]$ PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
   -V 16.0b2 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
  --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py \
  --products firefox,fennec -b localhost:9001