Releases/Firefox 17.0b5/BuildNotes

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Use Release Kickoff Form to start the release, with rail watching the backend script (No Docs Yet)
  • Replaces: Release:Release_Automation_on_Mercurial:Starting_a_Release#Land_patches_and_reconfig Land patches and reconfig^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
  • Also Replaces: Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

• Per desire for builds out to Softvision faster, Only generated 1 partial rather than two.

Build 1

Ship the l10n milestone

• sanity checked buildbot-configs/mozilla/l10n-changesets* diffs before feeding urls to new release automation
• fennec: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/json-changesets?ms=fennec17_beta_b5&platforms=android&multi_android-multilocale_repo=releases%2Fmozilla-beta&multi_android-multilocale_rev=default&multi_android-multilocale_path=mobile%2Fandroid%2Flocales%2Fmaemo-locales
• firefox: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx17_beta_b5

Land config updates / Run release sanity and start automation

• Filled in automation web UI: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=679028&action=edit
  • r+ by rail (in IRC) after I fixed fennec to use the json

Sign Android Builds

• [21:04 PST] Received automated email "All android builds now available"
• Android builds are signed.
• [21:12 PST] Automation sees the signed builds and sends "All signed builds now available" email.

Push snippets

• [13:56 EST] got the 'go to beta' for Desktop and Fennec.
• [~14:35 EST] lost BuildVPN access temporarily
• [14:59 EST] pushsnip completes
• Bouncer 'latest' link updated.
• replied to 'Please push Firefox Desktop...' email

Publish Fennec

• fetched https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/candidates/17.0b5-candidates/build1/android/multi/fennec-17.0b5.multi.android-arm.apk
• fetched https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/candidates/17.0b5-candidates/build1/android-armv6/multi/fennec-17.0b5.multi.android-arm-armv6.apk
• compared md5 checksum locally vs. on stage.mozilla.org
• uploaded apk's and activated new/deactivated old per wiki docs
• [13:50 EST] finished running ./push_fennec.sh on stage.m.o
• replied to 'Please push Firefox Mobile...' email

Verified Times

• [15:07 EST] Verified latest-* link in bouncer is updated
• [16:22 EST] Realized that I mistakenly did not hit 'save' on Fennec Publish
• [16:25 EST] Properly published Fennec
• [17:04 EST] QA signs off Firefox 17.0b5 updates on beta channel
• [17:29 EST] Manual trigger of "postrelease" builder reports complete
• [17:51 EST] Verified that Google Play cache expired and is now showing Beta 5