Releases/Firefox 19.0b6/BuildNotes

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

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Submit to Ship It ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Push Fennec to mirrors ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP BETA RELEASE}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Background

Release engineer: hwine
Tracking bug: bug 825312

Build 1

• prepped l10n changesets for both Firefox & Fennec. Pending approvals on both, but okay for beta.
• submitted releases via Ship-It!
  • first time failure, due to android-x86 not being in platform list, but in mozconfig list -- reopened bug 820592 to back out release config side of changes.
  • bug 840524 opened to improve release-runner email content
  • after landing backout on production, release-runner started the releases successfully
• builds without incident
• desktop snippet push & bouncer update smooth
• Post release tasks forced & completed
• Fennec apk's pushed to google play
• Fennec snippets pushed to mirrors ← not fogotten!