Releases/Firefox 20.0b1/BuildNotes

• Who: jhopkins
• Bugs Encountered:
  • bug 842987 - release runner didn't mark 20.0b1 as failed
  • bug 842990 - better documentation around dealing with release runner when it fails
  • bug 842992 - l10n changesets error messages in release sanity suck
  • bug 843040 - xulrunner nsinstall command fails symlink create due to file exists
• Tracking: bug 837118

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Submit to Ship It ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Push Fennec to mirrors ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Apply Throttling ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Verify throttling ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP BETA RELEASE}
• Update XULRunner wiki pages ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Get the Browser Choice website updated ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}

Submit to Ship-It

[6:32am EST] ship-it config submitted & review requested from callek. r+'d and kicked off a couple of minutes later.
[6:35am EST] 'Release runner encountered a runtime error'. Investigating.
[6:48am EST] Resubmitted to ship-it. Reconfig problem on bm13 seems to have been transient (ran it by hand successfully).
[7:30am EST] bhearsum pointed me at the real log file: /var/log/supervisor/release-runner.log. ERROR : cannot find l10n locale zh-CN in repo https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-beta/zh-CN/file/1e65623aaf2e
[7:39am EST] release runner jobs 'stuck' in a grayed out state. No docs on this. bhearsum unstuck the jobs, then unstuck a reconfig.
[7:57am EST] release runner running ok now

Builds

[09:23am EST] xulrunner mac failed, filed bug 843040. [10:xxam EST] builds failing due to improper partialUpdates setting fed to shipit UI.

Build 2

[12:06pm EST] Email to r-d: Patches for bug 791244 and bug 843040 are landed on mozilla-beta. Can you please send a go-to-build for Firefox/Fennec 20 beta 1 build #2?
[12:20pm EST] Received go-to-build for 20.0b1 build #2
[01:00pm EST] Shipit desktop release config reviewed and submitted. Holding off on mobile, per lsblakk.
[01:19pm EST] Reconfig unstuck (ec2 build slave), Tagging started.