Releases/Firefox 17.0b6/BuildNotes

Check list

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Release:Release_Automation_on_Mercurial:Starting_a_Release#Land_patches_and_reconfig Land patches and reconfig^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP BETA}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

Build 1

Ship the l10n milestone

Milestones were created and shipped on Nov 12 when the initial go-to-build was given. Due to late breaking code issues, we didn't actually start the release until the morning of the 13th.

Update configs, reconfig, start the automation

Release Kickoff/Runner was used for all of this. It worked 100% fine, except that because of problems with Thunderbird we had to back out the Firefox/Fennec configs to try all of the releases again. Once those problems were sorted out the releases started without issue.

Sign Android builds

As cltsign@signing1:

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