Releases/Thunderbird 17.0b1/BuildNotes

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Bugs hit

• bug 799806 - handle tier_base and tier_nspr properly for thunberbird
• bug 800514 - Cannot create repacks for TB 17 build 1 on Linux - LD_LIBPATH change

Notes

• Tracking bug: bug 796970
• Release Engineer: armenzg
• Buildbot master: buildbot-master30

Build 1

Starting the automation

• l10n changesets file: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=tb17_beta_b1
• set reserved slaves to 4 (# of l10n repacks, update verify is only 4 now)
• set clobberer for release-comm-beta
• landed configs, tagged buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, tools with THUNDERBIRD_16_0b4_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• updated and reconfiged bm30
• release sanity

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master source ../bin/activate PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u armenzg \

    -V 17.0b1 --build-number 1 --branch comm-beta \
    --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --product thunderbird \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

• started the automation

Repacks

• handle tier_base and tier_nspr properly for thunberbird, bug 79980
• I had to retag tools to take nthomas' fix
• update the master and reconfigure
• mark "release-comm-beta" to be clobbered
• force build jobs with script_repo_revision: THUNDERBIRD_17_0b1_RELEASE

Linux repacks

• I needed to land the ac_add_options --enable-stdcxx-compat and the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH": os.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "") changes
• re-tagged
• re-triggered
  • paaarty time!

Pushing to beta - Run pushsnip

Armens-MacBook-Air:~ armenzg$ ssh aus3-staging
[armenzg@dp-ausstage01 ~]$ sudo su - tbirdbld
[tbirdbld@dp-ausstage01 ~]$ cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
[tbirdbld@dp-ausstage01 staging]$ ~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-17.0b1-build1