Releases/Firefox 4.0/BuildNotes

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Release Engineers

Tracking Bug

Notes

Notify Mirrors

Need to send an e-mail to mirrors in advance of the push

Automated Parts

Some of this release-day work makes sense to do from the release automation. Use force build for these.

Tag

Source

Major Update Generation

Bouncer Entries

Virus Scan

(Might not be able to do this from automation because we don't have a full 3.6-candidates dir)

Verify permissions

(Might not be able to do this from automation because we don't have a full 3.6-candidates dir)

Stage and Rename Files

  • Copy files to ~ffxbld and rename to non-RC versions
  • Fix SUMS files, resign them

Other Verifications

Verify contents against RC

Index Files

Push to Mirrors

Notify AV Vendors

Need to notify AV vendors after the push to mirrors is done so that they can scan the files.

Push Major Updates

Update Symlinks

Remove index files

XULRunner