ReleaseEngineering/Official Platform Support Checklist

These are the steps that will have to be taken in order to officially support a new platform. They don't exactly have to happen in this order but it more or less follows a sequential order and some steps can be followed in parallel.

DISCLAIMER: This page is NOT guaranteed to contain 100% of the needs for all platforms. Use this page a guideline. Skip things that don't make sense for a given platform and do additional things that do make sense for it.

• File a tracking bug
• Create a reference image
  • Determine tool chain
    • What are the needed SDKs and tools to be installed on a fresh OS installation to get a build going
    • Talk with developers to help you with this and to use the right mozconfig
  • Must haves:
    • Nagios NRPE daemon - example of installing nagios
    • Puppet (example) or OPSI client
    • post-clone automation
      • buildbot.tac generation - buildbot-tac.py - (TODO: point to some documentation
        • ignore the ref image machine (patch)
      • OPSI host key automation (where appropriate) - (TODO: point to some documentation)
    • Staging SSH keys
  • Document OS installation and all subsequent changes under the ReferencePlatforms page
• Generate a build and pass it to QA to test it
  
• Deploy ref image to allocated slaves
  • File IT bugs:
    • Clone/image machines
    • Nagios checks for cloned slaves
• Create mozconfig(s). Standard mozconfigs for Desktop Firefox at the time of writing are: debug, nightly (aka opt), release, xulrunner)
• Testing/baking on staging
  • Enable standard jobs in staging buildbot configs (normal and debug builds)
  • Make sure codesighs run (not for windows)
  • Staging graph server changes to add new platform
  • Builds should be succeeding
  • Unit tests should be passing, any oranges must be investigated
• Try Server
  • build slaves allocated for try
  • mozconfig(s) for try
  • enable new platform on try master
• TinderboxPushlog support
  
• Wait times emails
• Talos
  • Ref-image
  • Nagios
  • Puppet or OPSI
  • Add slaves to talos-pool and graph server db changes
• Release builds
  • Enable the new platform on a staging release configuration file (patch)
  • Run an staging release (Documentation)
  • Update any release scripts that need to be made aware of the new platform. (which scripts?)
• Breakpad/symbols/stack walker support
  • Developers fix this
  • Once fixed we enable it