Releases/Fennec 14.0b3/BuildNotes

Notes About Releasing

Please update the Aurora Notes Template and the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed.

You will need to build a 14.0b3 build using the fennec mozilla-aurora config files, then a new build or respin (depending on code changes) of the 13.0b2 build# android-xul build for tablets. Both will go to the market.

Bugs hit

Enter any bugs pre-existing or newly discovered and filed during the release:

Build Engineers

{aki} - Tracking bug: bug 757597

Signed-off Revision(s)

• Build 1: cb1661106d95
• 13.0b2 build3 spin2: 79a76c1e1bf4

L10N changesets

• 14.0b3 will get Aurora changesets from this dashboard link. This link will change over time, so won't be useful for verifying later, but isn't dependent on a milestone being created per beta.

• 13.0b2 build3 spin2 will have an empty l10n-changesets_mobile-beta.json

Tags

Manually tag the automation code, then record the generated tags below. (details)

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
1	MOBILE140_#_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_14_0b3_RELEASE, FENNEC_14_0b3_BUILD1	#
13.0b2 build3 spin2	MOBILE130_2012050119_RELBRANCH FENNEC_13_0b2_BUILD3 FENNEC_13_0b2_RELEASE	88ee14110a74

Build data

Fennec

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	android
	android-xul
13.0b2 build 3 spin 2	android-xul

Notes

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

• Set clobbers for mozilla-aurora
• Reserved slaves on bm12
• Updated l10n changesets for mobile (see above)
• Double landed configs: default production
• Tagged buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags.

hg tag -f FENNEC_14_0b3_{RELEASE,BUILD1}

• updated and reconfigured the master
• release-sanity

# For 14.0b3 build 1:
# cltbld@bm12
cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 14.0b3 --branch mozilla-aurora --build-number 1 -c release-fennec-mozilla-aurora.py -m -l --products fennec --dryrun localhost:9001 2>&1 | tee aki.out

• start automation ← monitor progress on buildbot (e.g. aurora)

PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 14.0b3 --branch mozilla-aurora --build-number 1 -c release-fennec-mozilla-aurora.py -m -l --products fennec localhost:9001 2>&1 | tee aki2.out

E-mail Metrics

Use the address "metrics-alerts < AT > mozilla < PERIOD > org"

# For 14.0b3 :
Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,14.0b3,14.0

Tag

No problems.

DONE TO HERE

Android Signing

# cltsign@signing1
cd signing-work
hg --cwd mozharness pull
hg --cwd mozharness up -C -r default
python26 mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --cfg signing/android_mozilla-aurora.py --platform android

13.0b2 build 3 spin 2

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

• Set clobbers for mozilla-beta
• Reserve slave on bm13
• L10n changesets for 13.0b2 build3 spin2 will remain empty {}
• Verify that nothing has changed in 13.0b2 land since the previous spin.

IF NO CODE HAS CHANGED

No code has changed.

• Created a build3-spin2 directory on stage, and softlink the build3 to it.

• Hit "rebuild" on the latest release-mozilla-beta-android-xul_build.
  • This will upload into the build3-spin2 directory instead of overwriting the previous build.

Android Signing

# cltsign@signing1
cd signing-work
hg --cwd mozharness pull
hg --cwd mozharness up -C -r default
python26 mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-beta.py

Release Day

Publish Fennec to the Play Store (for beta releases and release releases)

Push the files (for beta releases and release releases)

• Use this script and run it as ffxbld@stage (please push you changes prior to using it, and grab latest on stage via curl -O http://hg.mozilla.org/build/braindump/raw-file/tip/releases-related/push_fennec.sh)

Play Store (for beta releases and release releases)

IMPORTANT - Make sure to follow instructions!

The 14.0b3 build *must* be uploaded before the 13.0b2 build!

• download 14.0b3 and 13.0b2 multi apk (e.g. [1] and [2])
• visit https://market.android.com/publish
• choose "Firefox Beta" or "Firefox"
• select the "APK Files" tab and choose "Upload APK"
  • choose the 14.0b3 multi apk that you downloaded and hit "upload"
    • NOTE: the progress bar does not seem to show progress (at least on Google Chrome)
  • when it finishes uploading, verify VersionCode is the build date (almost anyway, the market reports an hour later than our buildID)
  • hit "Save"
• Repeat with the 13.0b2 multi apk
• activate new 14.0b3 and 13.0b2 apks (You should see an Error message since both apk's are active)
• deactivate old apks (You should not see the Error message anymore)
• hit "Save"