Releases/Firefox 17.0b4/BuildNotes

Checklist

• 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 RELEASE BETA}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Bugs Hit

• Reconfig got stuck

Notes

Build 1

Ship the l10n milestone

• sanity checked buildbot-configs/mozilla/l10n-changesets* diffs before feeding urls to new release automation
• fennec: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/json-changesets?ms=fennec17_beta_b4&platforms=android&multi_android-multilocale_repo=releases%2Fmozilla-beta&multi_android-multilocale_rev=default&multi_android-multilocale_path=mobile%2Fandroid%2Flocales%2Fmaemo-locales
• firefox: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx17_beta_b4

Land config updates / Run release sanity and start automation

• [9:27am EST] Filled in automation web UI: http://grab.by/haDW. r+ by bhearsum
• ran into a bug with the new automation.

[09:29am] bhearsum: this is going to be tough to deal with now though....we have fennec configs bumped, but not firefox configs.....
[09:29am] bhearsum: we'll have to backout the configs and delete the tags to make it work
[09:33am] bhearsum: okay, everything backed out...let's try this again!
[09:33am] jhopkins: bhearsum: do you need me to re-submit my web form?
[09:34am] bhearsum: jhopkins: nope
[09:34am] bhearsum: they weren't successfully started, so they're still in the queue!
[09:34am] bhearsum: okay, config bumping on fennec + tagging went fine
[09:34am] bhearsum: release sanity appears to be running now
[09:35am] bhearsum: okay, looks like it's doing firefox now

• buildbot-configs auto-checkin: https://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/343dc4bbd8f8

[09:38am] bhearsum: okay, both sanitys passed
[09:38am] bhearsum: update/checkconfig/reconfig in process

• [09:42am EST] buildbot-master35 appears to be hung on slave 073
  • release runner was waiting for reconfigs to finish. all but bm35 had finished.
  • bhearsum looked at http://buildbot-master35.srv.releng.scl3.mozilla.com:8001/buildslaves?no_builders=1 and noticed that the 073 slave had > 10 connections in the past hour, which is indicative of a hung slave
  • bhearsum followed instructions at https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/Unstick_a_Stuck_Slave_From_A_Master to fix it

Sign Android Builds

• [11:00am EST] Received automated email "All android builds now available"
• Android builds are signed.
• [12:59pm EST] Automation sees the signed builds and sends "All signed builds now available" email.

• [11:13AM EST Nov. 1] lsblakk: jhopkins: i believe we will not get QA sign off until quite late today, likely push to beta tomorrow morning or early aft if no issues arise
• [1:43PM EST Nov. 2]

[1:33pm] jhopkins: do we have an ETA on pushing Firefox 17.0b4 to beta?
[1:40pm] akeybl: jhopkins: ashughes let me know we'd be ready to push b4 desktop around now
[1:41pm] akeybl: we're waiting on sign-off
[1:41pm] jhopkins: ok. and mobile?
[1:41pm] akeybl: we're waiting on status from kbrosnan
[1:41pm] jhopkins: ok thanks
[1:42pm] ashughes: jhopkins, update tests are still running on releasetest
[1:42pm] ashughes: I'll send email and ping you when it's done
[1:42pm] jhopkins: ashughes: awesome - thanks
[1:43pm] ashughes: hopefully done in the next 30 minutes

Push to mirrors

• checked uptake, OK

Push snippets

• [2:34PM EST] got Desktop sign-off
• verified mirror uptake on bouncer (result: 5 million)
• [2:51PM EST] got the 'go to beta' for Desktop and Fennec.
• [3:00PM EST] pushsnip completes
• Bouncer 'latest' link updated.
• replied to 'Please push Firefox Desktop...' email

Publish Fennec

• fetched https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/candidates/17.0b4-candidates/build1/android/multi/fennec-17.0b4.multi.android-arm.apk
• fetched https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/candidates/17.0b4-candidates/build1/android-armv6/multi/fennec-17.0b4.multi.android-arm-armv6.apk
• compared md5 checksum locally vs. on stage.mozilla.org
• uploaded apk's and activated new/deactivated old per wiki docs
• [3:36pm EST] finished running ./push_fennec.sh on stage.m.o
• replied to 'Please push Firefox Mobile...' email

Ran post-release builder

Done.

• [4:57PM EST] QA signs off Firefox Desktop 17.0b4 updates on beta channel
• [7:35PM EST] QA signs off on updates and installs from the Play store