Please note that this is NOT a template. You should NOT copy and paste it anywhere. It's only purpose is to provide an example of what build notes could look like when using the checklist. Each release is a unique snowflake and will look slightly differently.

When doing a release you should follow the checklist.

Checklist

~~Ship the l10n milestone~~
~~Set reserved_slaves~~
~~Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need~~
~~Start the automation~~
~~Sign Android builds]~~
~~Reset reserved_slaves~~
~~Publish Fennec~~
~~Run pushsnip~~

Notes

Build 1

Started the Release

Shipped the l10n milestone
Set "any master", "mozilla-beta", "any builder" for a clobber
Set reserved slaves to 8
Verified that bm13 had enough win32, linux, linux64, and r5 lion machines available to it
Landed config updates, tagged buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, and tools with {FIREFOX,FENNEC}_14_0b7_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
Updated and reconfiged the master
Ran release sanity dry run:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u bhearsum -V 14.0b7 --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

No problems, started the automation by running release sanity again without --dryrun

Signed Android Builds

cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C
python2.6 ~/signing-work/mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-beta.py --platform android

Reset reserved slaves

Reset to 0.

Published Fennec

Bumped version in http://hg.mozilla.org/build/braindump/raw-file/default/releases-related/push_fennec.sh to 14.0b7
Ran it:

# ffxbld@stage
wget -O push_fennec.sh http://hg.mozilla.org/build/braindump/raw-file/default/releases-related/push_fennec.sh
bash push_fennec.sh

Downloaded multilocale apk (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/14.0b7/android/multi/fennec-14.0b7.multi.android-arm.apk)
Browsed to https://market.android.com/publish
Clicked "Firefox Beta" product
Clicked "APK Files" tab
Clicked "Upload APK", uploaded the previously downloaded one.
Activated the new APK
Deactivated the previous one
Clicked "Save"

Pushed beta snippets

cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-14.0b99-build1

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