Based on checklist version. Be sure to take notes on manual steps and any problems you encounter.

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Reset reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Notes

Tracking bug: bug 782996

Build 1

Ship the l10n milestone

• Went to https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/milestones
• Clicked Ship It
• Followed "l10n-changesets" link and copy/pasted into l10n-changesets_thunderbird-beta

Set the reserved slaves

ssh cltbld@buildbot-master30 # name found in production-masters.json
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
echo 10 > master/reserved_slaves

Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need

• locked 2 win64 build slaves to bm30

Start the automation

• Double landed configs
• Updated+reconfiged bm30
  • source bin/activate
  • make update
  • make reconfig

Ran release_sanity:

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u kmoir \
      -V 16.0b1 --build-number 1 --branch comm-beta \
      --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --product thunderbird \
      --dryrun localhost:9001

• Started automation by running the command above without --dryrun

Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves

# cltbld@bm30
cd /builds/buildbot/build1
echo "0" > master/reserved_slaves

Run pushsnip

$ ssh tbirdbld@aus3-staging.mozilla.org
$ cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
$ ~/bin/backupsnip Thunderbird-16.0b1-build1
$ ~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-16.0b1-build1

Bugs hit

Internal server errors when accessing thunderbird-16.0b1 files bug 786649