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Build 1

• bug 1176759 prevented release-runner to start the release. Reverted the problematic ship-it PR, synced manually to git.m.o and deployed
• Release runner continued to work, bumped configs, but was not able to reconfig due to missing beta version in the partial list

Build 2

release-runner failed to reconfig because of bug 1176784

Build 3

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It

Abandoned

Issues

• some win32 l10n repacks failed because of insufficient disk space, retried automatically
• update verify failures due to a rule on release-localtest pointing to 38.0.5. Deleted.

Build 4

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page N/A
• Publish RC to Beta channel

Abandoned for another fix.

Issues

• patcher config bumps raced each other

Build 5

Abandoned

Build 6

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Set up whatsnew page N/A
• Publish RC to Beta channel
• Push to mirrors
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
  • remove rule for 38.0.5 with whatsnew (was for pocket locales)
• Post-release tasks

Fennec beta

first 2 build number were burned because of the issues above.

Build 3

• l10n repacks failed because some m-r vs m-b confusion. Need to add more info here.

build 4

submitted, but it was stuck trying to get an URL in release-sanity

build 5

clashed with build4 due to bug 1176875

build6

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Post-release tasks

Fennec release

Build 1

OMG partners issue :)

Build 2

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone (build1 only)
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Push to mirrors
• Post-release tasks

The final sign-off came on Fri in the same thread with "pushed to play store". Rail was on PTO and missed it, until was pinged by catlee/lmandel. Running post-release didn't help, because the configs were using version 39.0.1. Symlinked the latest directory manually.