Releases/AuroraBuildNotesTemplate

Notes About Releasing

Please update the Notes Aurora 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:

• bug - description

Build Engineers

{name} - Tracking bug: bug #

Signed-off Revision(s)

• Build 1: #
• 13.0b2 build2 spin#: d734a796d657

L10N changesets

Get l10n-changesets_mobile-aurora.json from here

This link will change over time, so won't be useful for verifying later.

• 13.0b2 build2 spin# will have an empty l10n-changesets_mobile-beta.json

Tags

Manually tag the automation code, then record the generated tags below. (details)

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
1	MOBILE140_#_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_VERSION_RELEASE, FENNEC_VERSION_BUILD1	#
13.0b2 build2 spin#	MOBILE130_2012050119_RELBRANCH FENNEC_13_0b2_BUILD2 FENNEC_13_0b2_RELEASE	d734a796d657

Build data

Fennec

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	android
	android-xul
13.0b2 build 2 spin #	android-xul

Notes

Build 1

Diff mozconfigs

If this is a *.0 beta -> release. May also need to update the whitelist of nightly vs release differences for release sanity.

They look reasonable, but will break on release sanity; will use -m.

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

E-mail Metrics

Use the address "metrics-alerts < AT > mozilla < PERIOD > org"

# For 14.0b1 :
Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,14.0b1,14.0

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

• Set clobbers for mozilla-aurora
• Reserved 5 slaves on bm12

• Update l10n changesets for mobile
• Landed configs
• Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags.

hg tag -f FENNEC_14_0b1_{RELEASE,BUILD3}

• update and reconfigure the master
• release-sanity

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 14.0b1 --branch mozilla-aurora --build-number 3 -c release-fennec-mozilla-aurora.py -m -l --products fennec --dryrun localhost:9001 2>&1 | tee aki.out

• start automation ← monitor progress on buildbot (e.g. aurora)

PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 14.0b1 --branch mozilla-aurora --build-number 3 -c release-fennec-mozilla-aurora.py -m -l --products fennec localhost:9001 2>&1 | tee aki2.out

Tag

No problems.

Source

No problems.

Build

Fennec

No problems.

Fennec repacks

No problems.

Android Signing

No problems.

Reset reserved slaves

Done.

13.0b2 build 2 spin 1

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

• Set clobbers for mozilla-beta
• Reserved 5 slaves on bm13
• Update l10n changesets for mobile ? -- none on the dashboard, need to talk to Axel next week.
• Landed configs
• Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags.

hg tag -f FENNEC_13_0b2_{RELEASE,BUILD2}

• update and reconfigure the master
• release-sanity

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 13.0b2 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 2 -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products fennec --dryrun localhost:9001 2>&1 | tee aki.out

• start automation ← monitor progress on buildbot (e.g. aurora)

PYTHONPATH=. ../bin/python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u aki -V 13.0b2 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 2 -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products fennec localhost:9001 2>&1 | tee aki2.out

Tag

No problems.

Source

No problems.

Build

Fennec

No problems.

Android Signing

# cltsign@signing1
cd signing-work
hg --cwd mozharness pull
hg --cwd mozharness up -C -r default
python26 mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-beta.py

Release Day

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

Push the files (for beta releases and release releases)

• Use this script and run it as ffxbld@stage (please push you changes prior to using it, and grab latest on stage via curl -O http://hg.mozilla.org/build/braindump/raw-file/tip/releases-related/push_fennec.sh)

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"