Releases/Thunderbird 15.0b4/BuildNotes

Based on checklist version. Be sure to take notes on manual steps and any problems you encounter.

Checklist

• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• 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}

• Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

tracking bug: bug 782678
release engineer: Hwine
buildbot master: buildbot-master30

Build 1

• reserved slaves:

   [cltbld@buildbot-master30 master]$ pwd
   /builds/buildbot/build1/master
   [cltbld@buildbot-master30 master]$ cat reserved_slaves 
   0
   [cltbld@buildbot-master30 master]$ echo 8 >reserved_slaves 
   [cltbld@buildbot-master30 master]$ cat reserved_slaves 
   8

• l10n changeset: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=tb15_beta_b4
• sufficient slaves to start
• release-sanity dryrun passes:

   PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py \
       -u hwine -V 15.0b4 --build-number 1 --branch comm-beta \
       --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --product thunderbird \
       --dryrun localhost:9001

• release kickoff:

   PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py \
       -u hwine -V 15.0b4 --build-number 1 --branch comm-beta \
       --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --product thunderbird \
       localhost:9001