Releases:Release Post Mortem:2015-12-30

Meeting Details

• 3:30pm ET
• Vidyo - Release Engineering room
• Dial-in:
  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 98225 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 98225 (US)
• #releaseduty on irc.mozilla.org
• https://trello.com/b/MXHaVRcP/release-promotion-meeting

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Release Duty

• FF 44 cycle: jlund/rail (mtabara shadowing)
• FF 45 cycle: mtabara

Misc

• Firefox_44.0b3 and Firefox_44.0b5 skipped for holiday reasons
• there will be NO "What's New Page" for FF 44 release

Firefox/Fennec_44.0b4 (jlund/rail/mtabara)

• No failures of any type, some recurrent stuff:
  • failed antivirus. reason: bug 1234289 antivirus should sleep longer between retry exceptions (fixed in the meanwhile)

Firefox 43.0.3 (jlund/rail/mtabara)

• To prep a youtube/nvidia fix release for xp, vista, and linux
• live - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/43.0.3/releasenotes/
• but temporary disabled because of bug 1235537 (av software, they're updating it)
• No failures of any type, some intermittent stuff:
  • timed out win32 build step, rerun / rebuilt instance

Firefox 43.0.2 (jlund/rail/mtabara)

• To ship part2 of the SHA2 switch, bug 1079859
• live - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/43.0.2/releasenotes/
• No failures of any type, some intermittent stuff:
  • failed to purge win64 build step failed, re-triggered / terminated instance and re-triggered builder
  • failed antivirus. reason: bug 1234289 antivirus should sleep longer between retry exceptions (fixed in the meanwhile)
  • intermittent fail to download one of the mars, re-triggered

Firefox/Fennec_44.0b2 (jlund/rail/mtabara)

• No failures of any type, some recurrent stuff:
  • GTK3 exception, rebuilding

Thunderbird 38.5.0 (jlund/rail)

• watershed release, has part1 patch
• release notes available here - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/38.5.0/releasenotes/
• 100% smooth

(not-yet)Thunderbird 38.5.1 (jlund/rail)

• watershed release, has part2 patch
• current status: release-localtest channel looks good, awaiting request for release-cdntest. It's being hold off until the various upgrade paths using the waterfall are fully tested.
• Some intermittent failures came up:
  • build1 - bug 1235071 ssh: symbolpush.mozilla.org: no address associated with name, invalid bug - wrong cset
  • build2 - bug 1226276 l10n taggging fails when running 'hg branches' against clean checkout of certain locale repos, rerunning

(not-yet)Thunderbird 43.0b1 (jlund/rail)

• uplift to the release branch of part 1
• current status: blocked ATM - We need to resolve the build issues first to make sure all binaries are available. Otherwise we can't generate update information (it requires SHA512 hashes of real files)
• Some failures came up:
  • build1 - one repack failure on linux from truncated complete mar, standalone_repack and repack_complete to recover
  • build1 - bug 1231174 all mac repacks failed
  • build2 - bug 1233577 Thunderbird builds failing with upload error (mach not found)
  • build3 - repack_7/10 failed on win32. TB QA seriously considering releasing in spite of the partial repacks