Releases/Firefox 17.0/BuildNotes

Build 1

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Land patches and reconfig^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA} NB: Push armv6 apk as well, like we do for betas
• 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}

Notes

Release was started using release-runner (bhearsum/rail), but the l10n-changesets were still handled manually.

We missed the release config template change prior to starting with release-runner. A couple of rounds of patches (1, 2) with reconfigs sorted that out. bhearsum forced an armv6 build, setting a buildid property with the same value as the armv7 build

The Mac xulrunner build failed with an error creating a symlink in the compile stage, bug 812918. This seems to be an intermittent failure across several branches. Green on rebuild.

Published Fennec per instructions. QA did some armv6 device blocking afterwards.

bug 816090 -- fennec wasn't pushed to releases/; aki did that nov28

Build 2

XulRunner push to mirrors

• failed because build1 was pushed to releases directory. Fixed by

[xrbld@upload1.dmz.scl3 ~]$ rm -rf /pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/17.0/

Partner repacks

Partners couldn't get builds due to index.html files during slow copy into firefox/releases - bug 813515.