Releases/Thunderbird 10.0.5esr/BuildNotes

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Notes About Releasing

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

Bugs hit

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

Build Engineers

nthomas - Tracking bug: bug 744599

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build data

Firefox

Build # Type Build ID Build machine Time to build
1 Linux
Linux64
Mac
Windows

Notes

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

  • first TB ESR release on Firefox infra so nothing to clobber
  • Reserve slaves (you need ~5 each of linux, linux64, win32 (w32), and macosx64 (moz2-darwin10)). Doing this 2-3 hours in advance should speed things up. e.g.:
[cltbld@buildbot-master34 master]$ pwd
/builds/buildbot/build1/master
[cltbld@buildbot-master43 master]$ cat reserved_slaves
6
  • For build1 only, create a symlink for your $version (eg 11.0b4, 10.0.2esr, 10.0.2, 3.6.27) (until bug 725839 is resolved)
# tbirdbld@stage
cd /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/
version=10.0.5esr
mkdir ../candidates/$version-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/$version-candidates $version-candidates
  • No l10n changes
  • Double land automation configs
  • Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags. (details)
hg tag -f THUNDERBIRD_10_0_5esr_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
  • update and reconfigure the master
  • dry run automation start
cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u nthomas -V 10.0.5esr \
    --branch comm-esr10 --build-number 1 \
    --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-esr10.py --products thunderbird  \
    --dryrun -l localhost:9001
  • start automation ← monitor progress on buildbot (e.g. comm-esr10)
    • the same command as above but without the "--dryrun"

DONE TO HERE NOTES TRIMMED TO HERE

E-mail Metrics

Use the address "metrics-alerts < AT > mozilla < PERIOD > org". Note for first-time-releasers: your email will get held for moderator approval - that is expected. If it happens more than once, get help on #metrics.

For 3.6.25 you would send 

Firefox,firefox,firefox,3.6.25,3.6
Firefox,firefox,firefox,3.6.26pre,3.6

For non-3.6 releases, we need to include Fennec in the email if we build Fennec.

For 9.0b2 it would be 

Firefox,firefox,firefox,9.0b2,9.0
Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,9.0b2,9.0

And for 9.0 final it's 

Firefox,firefox,firefox,9.0,9.0
Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,9.0,9.0

ESRs look like this: 

Firefox,firefox,firefox,10.0.3,10.0
Firefox,firefox,firefox,10.0.3esr,10.0

E-mail mirrors@mozilla.org

Not necessary for rapid release betas, files only go as far as the 'internal mirrors'.

Coordinate yourself with the person creating the ESR and the latest release which normally go out at the same time.

They want to know approximately what time push to external mirrors will occur. Ideally this is a 24hr notice to them, with the estimated time. 

Subject: Firefox {VERSION1} [and {VERSION2}] coming to mirrors on {DATE}
Body:
We're planning on pushing our Firefox {VERSION1} [and {VERSION2}] release(s) to mirrors 24 hours before {DATE}.
# If this is a chemspill, please mention that in the email as it will mean pinging 
# for CDN to be enabled when the push to internal mirrors happens

If you believe these releases or these dates will cause any problems,
please notify release at mozilla.com. If you have any problems with mirror
status/weights/etc, please notify mirror-submissions at mozilla.org.

Edit rsync exclude files

Edit /pub/mozilla.org/zz/rsyncd-mozilla-releases.exclude on stage so that it excludes the current release. This prevents external mirrors from picking up the new release prematurely.

For rapid release betas, this is not necessary as there's already an exclude that matches beta releases.

Tag

Bouncer Submitter

Source

Build

Firefox

Firefox repacks

Fennec

Fennec repacks

Unittests / Talos

details

  1. Look to see that they ran
  2. Document any oranges (per platform) for unittests - if possible, try to confirm it's known/random
  3. Make sure there's no red/failures that we need to have a dev look at

XULRunner

Source

Build

Partner Repack

Firefox

Fennec

Android Signing

Instructions in MobileSigning

Now run on signing1.

L10N verify

Checksums

Updates

Update verify

Major Update

Major update generation is not kicked off automatically. You should only create them once the final builds for the "latest" build are ready. For instance, the 3.6.26 builds got created a week before the 10.0 release but the "final" 10.0 builds were not created after few days.

Follow instructions from the Major update documentation.

Major Update verify

Reset reserved slaves

Check permissions / AV scan

It is supposed to be triggered automatically after updates are done. File a bug if it doesn't. details

Push to internal mirrors

This is done by automation for rapid release betas. Note: if you have to reconfig the release buildbot master in during the release, the uptake monitoring will fail (bug 629648). That means you'll need to manually send the "ready for releasetest" emails when you believe things are "good enough". Refer to a prior release for email details.

For other releases, this should be done manually at this point, after check permissions / AV scan have completed.

Mirrors Policy

Final verification

Record receipt of "completed_final_verification" emails (1 per platform)

Going to Beta

NOTE: Skip to "Before Release Day" for beta releases

Run backupsnip

NOTE: Remember to do this at least 2 hours ahead of the expected "go to beta" email. details

Remember to ssh to aus3-staging using your short LDAP name and then run sudo su - ffxbld once on. If you intend to use screen, initiate your screen session while you are still yourself.

Push to beta

Wait for "go" from release managers
For Firefox:

  • Publish (and record run time here): details
  • on completion, email r-d that VERSION updates are live on the beta channel

For Android:

  • publish on Google Play (nee Android Marketplace), using instructions below
  • on completions, email r-d that VERSION is live on Google Play

Wait for confirmation from QA that each of the above releases is okay, then close the tracking ticket.

Before Release Day

Assuming this is not a chemspill.

Run backupsnip for release snippets

Do this the night before release day as it can take up to two hours.

Push index file to mirrors

Push to external mirrors

If this is a chemspill you will want to ping justdave (or other sysadmin) in #release-drivers and ask them to enable CDN.

  • Remove previously added blacklisting entry from stage.mozilla.org:/pub/mozilla.org/zz/rsyncd-mozilla-releases.exclude
  • Replace old version with the current one in stage.mozilla.org:/pub/mozilla.org/zz/rsyncd-mozilla-current.exclude

See details

Release Day

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

Push the files (for beta releases and release releases)
Play Store (for beta releases and release releases)

IMPORTANT - Make sure to follow instructions!

  • download multi apk (e.g. multi/fennec-10.0b6.multi.android-arm.apk)
  • visit https://market.android.com/publish
  • choose "Firefox Beta" or "Firefox"
  • select the "APK Files" tab and choose "Upload APK"
    • choose the 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"
  • activate new apk (You should see an Error message since both apk's are active)
  • deactivate old apk (You should not see the Error message anymore)
  • hit "Save"
  • If this is a beta 1, go to "Product Details" tab -> Recent Changes, change the url to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/{VERSION}beta/releasenotes/
    • and hit "Save"

Push XULRunner to Mirrors

Update XULRunner wiki page

For major releases or chemspills, update the links on:

Also for older releases:

Check Throttling

See http://update-watch.localgho.st/release/ for example AUS links

Some links to check:

Push to Release Channel (for beta releases and release releases)

Once there is enough uptake and we get "go" from release driver.

Update symlinks

Once we're signed off on the release channel.

Remove index.html files

If you created them earlier to hide the release.

Update browser choice website

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