Releases/Thunderbird 10.0.10esr/BuildNotes

• Land patches and reconfig^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Build Engineers

hwine - tracker bug 800423

Notes

First multi-master build

Build 1

• reconfig landed and pushed

   $ python manage_masters.py -f production-masters.json \
       -R scheduler -R build reconfig

• dry run release sanity passed & sendchange done:

   (build_scheduler)[cltbld@buildbot-master36 master]$ PYTHONPATH=. python \
       ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u hwine -V 10.0.10esr \
       --branch comm-esr10 --build-number 1 \
       --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-esr10.py \
       --product thunderbird --bypass-mozconfig-check -l localhost:9301

L10N repacks

• 3 mac repacks failed because moz2-darwin10-slave41's disk was almost full.
• cleaned up some old releases (beta) and some build directories which can be recreated (*-verification)
• rebuild chunks 2,4,5

Push Snips

• smooth

   cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
   ~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-10.0.10esr-build1

Post Release

• smooth after training on how to find a builder in multi-master world.