Releases/Firefox 3.5.8/BuildNotes

Build Engineers

coop and armenzg
bug 543761

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build1: d8ca06471009

Tags

On releases/mozilla-1.9.1:

Build #	Tag	Changeset
1	GECKO1918_20100202_RELBRANCH	9165e7415f91
	FIREFOX_3_5_8_BUILD1	9165e7415f91

Build data

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine
1	Linux	20100202153512	moz2-linux-slave39
1	Mac	20100202152834	bm-xserve21
1	Windows	20100202165920	win32-slave49

Notes

Build 1

NOTE: We used clobberer for this releases

• Clean up slaves
  • Linux: slave30,36,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50
    • rm -rf /builds/slave/{tag,source,linux_build,linux_repack,updates,linux_update_verify,final_verification}/*
  • Win32: slave50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59
    • rm -rf /e/builds/moz2_slave/{win32_build,win32_repack,win32_update_verify,wince_build}/*
  • Mac: slave21,22,23,24,25,26; xserve21,22
    • rm -rf /builds/slave/{macosx_build,macosx_repack,l10n_verification, macosx_update_verify}/*

• Landed automation version bumps, reconfigured production-master02
• Kicked off automation

buildbot sendchange --username=armenzg --master=localhost:9010 --branch=releases/mozilla-1.9.1 -m "Firefox 3.5.8 build1" Go

• Tag manually buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom and tools repositories
  • I didn't do it before triggering the release
  • hg pull -u && hg up -C
  • choose the revisions that were used
  • hg tag -r d2890e48e6e9 FIREFOX_3_5_8_BUILD1; hg tag -r d2890e48e6e9 FIREFOX_3_5_8_RELEASE (for buildbot-configs)
  • hg tag -r 7ad8012e2926 FIREFOX_3_5_8_RELEASE; hg tag -r 7ad8012e2926 FIREFOX_3_5_8_BUILD1 (for buildbotcustom)

Tag

No problems

Source

No problems

Build/Repack

No problems

• slaves
• Remove build1/en-US.xpi bug 485860

Sign

No Problems

• Freed-up space in key master
  • df -h (we should have TBD GB available on /d/)
  • removed unsgined-buildN and signed-buildN of the last 4 releases, in our case:
    • ls -lrt
    • thunderbird-2.0.0.2{2,3}
    • firefox-3.5.5
    • firefox-3.0.16
    • moved them to removed_binaries
    • starting with 23GB's free (80%)
• Following instructions in Combined Signing

L10nVerify

No problems

• metadiff has output but it makes sense since we took "fr" changes for this dot release

Generate updates and push betatest snippets

No problems

Update verify

No problems

Major update (3.5.8 to 3.6.0)

To be done

Publish updates to beta channel

Feb.9th 12:30PM PST: NOTE: No email giving a heads up.

# cltbld @ aus2-staging
cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
# No need to run backupsnip, since jhford did it for 3.0.18
~/bin/pushsnip 20100203-Firefox-3.5.8-beta

• bug 544458 - Throttling changes for Fx 3.5.8 going to beta channel