Releases/Firefox 15.0b4/BuildNotes

Checklist

• 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}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

Build 1

Ship the l10n milestone

• Went to https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/milestones
• Clicked on "new milestones" link
• Clicked "clear aurora"
• Clicked "X" for everything except "Fennec beta" and "Firefox beta"
• Clicked "Submit"
• Clicked "ship" for Firefox
• Downloaded l10n changesets
• Clicked "ship it"
• Clicked "ship" for Fennec
• Clicked "add"
• Filled out form:
  • repo: releases/mozilla-beta
  • branch: default
  • path: mobile/android/locales/maemo-locales
• Clicked "Generate it"
• Downloaded l10n changesets
• Clicked "Ship it"

Set the reserved slaves

# cltbld@bm13
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
echo 10 > master/reserved_slaves

Start the automation

#ffxbld@stage
version=15.0b4
product=firefox
cd /pub/mozilla.org/$product/nightly/
mkdir ../candidates/$version-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/$version-candidates $version-candidates

• Double landed configs, merged to branch
• Tagged configs, custom, tools
• Updated+reconfiged bm13
• Ran release_sanity:

. bin/activate
cd master
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u kmoir \
    -V 15.0b4 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
    --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products firefox,fennec  \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

• Started automation by running this command

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u kmoir \
    -V 15.0b4 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
    --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products firefox,fennec localhost:9001

Sign android builds

#cltsign@signing1
cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C
cd ..
python2.6 mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-beta.py --platform android

Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves

# cltbld@bm13
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
echo "0" > master/reserved_slaves

Publish Fennec

• Bumped the version & build number in push_fennec.sh to 15.0b4 build1. Ran the following as ffxbld@upload1:

curl -O http://hg.mozilla.org/build/braindump/raw-file/tip/releases-related/push_fennec.sh
bash push_fennec.sh

• Downloaded [1] Fennec multilocale APK to my laptop.
• Went to https://market.android.com/publish
• Clicked on "Firefox Beta"
• Clicked on "APK Files"
• Clicked on "Upload APK"
• Uploaded the 15.0b2 multilocale APK.
• Clicked "Save"
• Activated the new APK
• Decativated the old APK
• Clicked "Save"

Watched https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox_beta until the "last updated" date changed.

Run pushsnip

[ffxbld@dp-ausstage01 staging]$ ~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-15.0b4-build1