Releases/Firefox 15.0b1/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}
• E-mail Metrics ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Reset reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

Build 1

Created and shipped 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"

I got a zeus "Service unavailable" page the first time I tried to do this. I went through everything again and it worked fine (albeit slowly).

• 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 reserved_slaves

As cltbld@buildbot-master13:

echo 10 > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves

Verified that we had enough slaves available

Had to lock 6 mw32-ix slaves to bm13 for repacks, all other platforms had at least 5 slaves.

Started the Automation

• Created the candidates directory + symlink:

# ffxbld@stage
version=15.0b1
product=firefox
cd /pub/mozilla.org/$product/nightly/
mkdir ../candidates/$version-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/$version-candidates $version-candidates

• Landed configuration file updates
• Transplanted http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbotcustom/rev/32ccb8ddeef1 to the production-0.8 branch, at Rail's request.
• Tagged the tip of of buildbot-configs' production branch, tip of buildbotcustom's production-0.8 branch, and tools' default branch with {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_15_0b1_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• Updated & reconfiged buildbot-master13
• Ran release sanity in dryrun mode:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u bhearsum \
    -V 15.0b1 --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

• Got errors regarding mozconfigs:

WARNING : if test "$IS_NIGHTLY" != ""; then not in win32 ['ac_add_options --enable-update-channel=nightly', 'ac_add_options --enable-signmar', 'ac_add_options --enable-js-diagnostics', '. $topsrcdir/configs/mozilla2/win32/include/choose-make-flags', 'mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j1']!
ERROR : found in browser/config/mozconfigs/win32/nightly but not in browser/config/mozconfigs/win32/release: if test "$IS_NIGHTLY" != ""; then
WARNING : ac_add_options --disable-auto-deps not in win32 ['ac_add_options --enable-update-channel=nightly', 'ac_add_options --enable-signmar', 'ac_add_options --enable-js-diagnostics', '. $topsrcdir/configs/mozilla2/win32/include/choose-make-flags', 'mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j1']!
ERROR : found in browser/config/mozconfigs/win32/nightly but not in browser/config/mozconfigs/win32/release: ac_add_options --disable-auto-deps
WARNING : fi not in win32 ['ac_add_options --enable-update-channel=nightly', 'ac_add_options --enable-signmar', 'ac_add_options --enable-js-diagnostics', '. $topsrcdir/configs/mozilla2/win32/include/choose-make-flags', 'mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j1']!
ERROR : found in browser/config/mozconfigs/win32/nightly but not in browser/config/mozconfigs/win32/release: fi
ERROR : Error verifying mozconfigs

• • Did a manual diff of the win32 nightly vs. release mozconfig, relevant sections are:

-if test "$IS_NIGHTLY" != ""; then 
-  ac_add_options --disable-auto-deps
-fi

• • This means that we need to add those lines to the whitelist or otherwise cope with difference. OK to ignore this, though. FILEME.
• And about a missing locale:

2012-07-17 10:07:27,537 : ERROR : cannot find l10n locale lg in repo https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-beta/lg/file/f3caa9bc805b