Releases/Firefox 41.0/BuildNotes

Fennec (RC not beta10)

Release build1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It

gave up here as we are not shipping build1 as a release. we are doing a build2

• Push to mirrors
• Post-release tasks

Release build2

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It

gave up here as we are not shipping build1 as a release. we are doing a build3

• Push to mirrors
• Post-release tasks

Release build3

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Push to mirrors
• Post-release tasks

Firefox

Release build1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page no new what's new page
• Publish RC to Beta channel

gave up here as we are not shipping build1 as a release. we are doing a build2

• Push to mirrors
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Release build2

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page no new what's new page
• Publish RC to Beta channel

gave up here as we are not shipping build1 as a release. we are doing a build3

• Push to mirrors
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Release build3

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page no new what's new page
• Publish RC to Beta channel
• Push to mirrors
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Issues

• release-runner failed on first kick-off
  • cause: firefox-38.0.5b3.complete.mar didn't exist so partial versions were wrong. we needed: 40.0.3build1,39.0build6,40.0.2build1,41.0b9build1
  • resolution: re-submitted with correct partials based on ADI
• all fennec builds failed
  • reason:
    • bundleclone not working on linux/mock (https://bugzil.la/1191859)
    • a change to log traceback errors if bundleclone fails (http://hg.mozilla.org/build/puppet/rev/04eb3e1f28c6)
    • a multi_locale automation step (make package) that will fail if it parses error lines (like tracebacks from part 2)
  • resolution: http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/65ef8a7712e3
  • follow-up: discuss whether puppet deployments should be allowed on mon/tues of release week
• api-11 fennec repack failures (chunks 1,2,3,7,8,10)
  • reason: because of a mock package failed to install:
    • 18:40:39 INFO - https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/mozilla-releng-mock-centos-us-west-2/mirrors/centos/6/latest/os/x86_64/GConf2-devel-2.28.0-6.el6.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 500 Internal Server Error"
  • resolution: the other chunks installed fine so it must have been a network issue between aws <-> mozilla. rebuilt the failed chunks
  • follow-up: investigate network flows at the time of failure. might not be worth it.

• build3
  • beta_final_verification failed for Firefox 41.0 build3
  • post_release failed:
    • reason: post-release partner steps failed becasue we disabled partner repacks for this release
    • resolution: disable post-release partner steps, re-tag, re-trigger: http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/faab86c39906