Releases/Funnelcake10

New Item for January

• Like Funnelcake07 and Funnelcake09 (March and July '09 editions), we will be including the Kampyle feedback/survey form.
• Our goal is to see if changes incorporated in recent months will have a impact with user experience

Task List

Steps needed to perform a funnelcake release.

In advance:

1. create repack (Kev)
2. installers to be made available at https://people.mozilla.org/files/partners/mozilla10/3.5.6/ (or something similar). worksheet will be here: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Firefox:Distribution:Funnelcake.
3. QA testing + signing of release (Tomcat)
4. Repacking (Kev)
5. builds to be made ready for signing at people.mozilla.com:/tmp/mozilla10-356-unsigned.tar
6. Build signs (Nick Thomas); now at people.mozilla.com:/tmp/mozilla10-356-signed.tar
7. signed builds available at https://people.mozilla.com/files/partners/mozilla10/3.5.6/ (ask kev for uname/password if needed)
8. Create all unique pages (e.g., download.html, firstrun, whatsnew) (automated process for IT)
9. pages available on trunk
10. Page testing and approval by QA (Stephen Donner)
    1. For the following pages, download the en-US builds for Win, Mac, Linux, install, and ensure their first-run pages are instrumented (f=10 or something similar):
       1. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
       2. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/firefox/
       3. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html
       4. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
       5. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html
       6. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
          1. en-US links for Win, Mac, Linux should be Funnelcake-instrumented
             1. All other download links should be normal
11. Set-up download servers and enable mirrors (Oremj)
12. builds should be available at something like http://dm-download03.mozilla.org/
13. Double check the builds (Tomcat)

At midnight:

1. Pages pushed to production (automated process for IT)
2. Pages verified (Stephen Donner)

Day of launch:

1. Change pages back to normal on trunk and stage (automated process for IT)
2. Verify on authstage once it syncs (Stephen Donner)

At following midnight:

1. Back out to normal pages (automated process for IT)
2. Change the 3 bouncer entries between 0:00 and 0:01. All Firefox-3.5.6-10 entries should point to the same locations as Firefox-3.5.6 entries. (John O'Duinn or Nick Thomas)
3. Verify that three entry points all back to serving regular builds on all three platforms (Stephen Donner)

Done!

Bugs To Be Filed

• Modified Installer -- we will be including the survey with this Funnelcake

• master bug
• [ Create, QA, and Sign repack]
• [ QA pages]
• [ add funnelcake entries to bouncer]
• [ put funnelcake builds on local mozilla mirror nodes]
• [ push pages live at midnight]
• [ turn off at midnight: reset funnelcake bouncer entries]
• [ turn off at midnight: remove funnelcake builds from local mozilla mirror nodes]
• [ turn off at midnight: revert the pages on Mozilla.com]