Build 1

Checklist

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Land patches and reconfig ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update bouncer links ^{DESKTOP BETA RELEASE}
• Post-release tasks ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Ship the l10n milestones

• Created and shipped milestones for Fennec and Firefox 18.0b6build1.

Start the release

• Submitted the releases to the dev-master instance
  • l10n changesets were incorrect for Firefox; json vs. txt list bug 824957. Resubmitted.
• bhearsum ran release runner, which started the release. (There were a couple of bumps related to new release runner code, but no problems related to the data submitted through the web.)
• Mac64 XR build failed on first pass. Pressed 'Rebuild' from the builder page in buildbot. Second pass was green.

Sign Android builds

# cltsign@signing1
cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C
cd ..
python2.6 mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-beta.py

Publish Fennec

• followed instructions

Pushsnip

# ffxbld@aus3-staging
cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-18.0b6-build1

Update bouncer links

s,18.0b5,18.0b6

Post-release

Hit 'force build'