Releases/Firefox 17.0b5/BuildNotes
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Ship the l10n milestone DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA -
Use Release Kickoff Form to start the release, with rail watching the backend script (No Docs Yet)-
Replaces: Release:Release_Automation_on_Mercurial:Starting_a_Release#Land_patches_and_reconfig Land patches and reconfigDESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR -
Also Replaces: Start the automation DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR
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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
Notes
- Per desire for builds out to Softvision faster, Only generated 1 partial rather than two.
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_b5&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_b5
Land config updates / Run release sanity and start automation
- Filled in automation web UI: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=679028&action=edit
- r+ by rail (in IRC) after I fixed fennec to use the json
Sign Android Builds
- [21:04 PST] Received automated email "All android builds now available"
- Android builds are signed.
- [21:12 PST] Automation sees the signed builds and sends "All signed builds now available" email.
Push snippets
- [13:56 EST] got the 'go to beta' for Desktop and Fennec.
- [~14:35 EST] lost BuildVPN access temporarily
- [14:59 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/17.0b5-candidates/build1/android/multi/fennec-17.0b5.multi.android-arm.apk
- fetched https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/candidates/17.0b5-candidates/build1/android-armv6/multi/fennec-17.0b5.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
- [13:50 EST] finished running ./push_fennec.sh on stage.m.o
- replied to 'Please push Firefox Mobile...' email
Verified Times
- [15:07 EST] Verified latest-* link in bouncer is updated
- [16:22 EST] Realized that I mistakenly did not hit 'save' on Fennec Publish
- [16:25 EST] Properly published Fennec
- [17:04 EST] QA signs off Firefox 17.0b5 updates on beta channel
- [17:29 EST] Manual trigger of "postrelease" builder reports complete
- [17:51 EST] Verified that Google Play cache expired and is now showing Beta 5