Releases/Funnelcake09
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New Item for July
- Like Funnelcake07, which shipped in March, we will be including the Kampyle feedback/survey form.
- Our goal is to see if changes incorporated into Fx3.5 will have a impact with user experience
Task List
Steps needed to perform a funnelcake release.
In advance:
- create repack (Kev)
- installers to be made available at https://people.mozilla.org/files/partners/mozilla09/3.5/ (or something similar). worksheet will be here: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Firefox:Distribution:Funnelcake.
- QA testing + signing of release (Tomcat)
- Repacking (Kev)
- builds to be made ready for signing at people.mozilla.com:/tmp/mozilla09-35-unsigned.tar
- Build signs (Nick Thomas); now at people.mozilla.com:/tmp/mozilla09-35-signed.tar
- signed builds available at https://people.mozilla.com/files/partners/mozilla09/3.5/ (ask kev for uname/password if needed)
- Create all unique pages (e.g., download.html, firstrun, whatsnew) (automated process for IT)
- pages available on trunk
- Page testing and approval by QA (Stephen Donner)
- For the following pages, download the en-US builds for Win, Mac, Linux, install, and ensure their first-run pages are instrumented (f=9 or something similar):
- https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
- https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/firefox/
- https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html
- https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
- https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html
- https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
- en-US links for Win, Mac, Linux should be Funnelcake-instrumented
- All other download links should be normal
- en-US links for Win, Mac, Linux should be Funnelcake-instrumented
- For the following pages, download the en-US builds for Win, Mac, Linux, install, and ensure their first-run pages are instrumented (f=9 or something similar):
- Set-up download servers and enable mirrors (Oremj)
- builds should be available at something like http://dm-download03.mozilla.org/
- Double check the builds (Tomcat)
At midnight:
- Pages pushed to production (automated process for IT)
- Pages verified (Stephen Donner)
Day of launch:
- Change pages back to normal on trunk and stage (automated process for IT)
- Verify on authstage once it syncs (Stephen Donner)
At following midnight:
- Back out to normal pages (automated process for IT)
- Change the 3 bouncer entries between 0:00 and 0:01. All Firefox-3.5-09 entries should point to the same locations as Firefox-3.5 entries. (John O'Duinn or Nick Thomas)
- Verify that three entry points all back to serving regular builds on all three platforms (Stephen Donner)
Done!
Bugs To Be Filed
- Modified Installer -- we will be including the survey with this Funnelcake
- master bug
- Create, QA, and Sign repack
- QA pages
- add funnelcake entries to bouncer
- put funnelcake builds on local mozilla mirror nodes
- push pages live at midnight
- turn off at midnight: reset funnelcake bouncer entries
- turn off at midnight: remove funnelcake builds from local mozilla mirror nodes
- turn off at midnight: revert the pages on Mozilla.com