Notes About Releasing

Please update the Notes Template and the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed

Bugs hit

Build Engineers

rail - Tracking bug: bug 744602

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1:

• comm-beta: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/c2e021ccbd53
• mozilla-beta: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/5dd4dde1d4eb
  • relbranch: GECKO130_2012052815_RELBRANCH

L10N changesets

Instructions on how to get them

• https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=tb13_beta_b4

Tags

Manually tag the automation code, then record the generated tags below. (details)

Build #	Branch, Tags	Changeset
1	GECKO130_2012052913_RELBRANCH THUNDERBIRD_13_0b4_BUILD1 THUNDERBIRD_13_0b4_RELEASE	f485394676fc
	GECKO130_2012052815_RELBRANCH	8b4519048114

Build data

Thunderbird

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux	20120529140015	mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave04	40 mins, 29 secs
	Linux64		linux64-ix-slave05	36 mins, 15 secs
	Mac		moz2-darwin10-slave53	3 hrs, 34 mins, 5 secs
	Windows		mw32-ix-slave07	1 hrs, 29 mins, 28 secs

Notes

Build 1

Preparing to start Automation

detailed instructions

• Set clobbers for the appropriate branch. Doing this 24-48 hours in advance should speedup the build.
• Reserve slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master34 master]$ echo "10" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves

• For build1 only, create a symlink for your $version (eg 11.0b4, 10.0.2esr, 10.0.2, 3.6.27) (until bug 725839 is resolved)

# tbirdbld@stage
cd /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/
mkdir ../candidates/13.0b4-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/13.0b4-candidates 13.0b4-candidates

• Update l10n changesets for desktop, mobile
  • Instructions on how to get them
  • dashboard
• Land automation configs (are you or buildduty going to reconfig? great, merge. otherwise double-land only your configs)
• Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags. (details)
  • hg tag THUNDERBIRD_13_0b4_{RELEASE,BUILD1}
• update and reconfigure the master

cd /builds/buildbot/build1
make update && make checkconfig && python buildbot-wrangler.py reconfig `pwd`/master

• start automation

cd /builds/buildbot/build1
source bin/activate
buildbot sendchange --username=rail --master localhost:9001 --branch=releases/comm-beta \
  --comments "THUNDERBIRD 13.0b4 BUILD 1" -p products:thunderbird \
  -p script_repo_revision:THUNDERBIRD_13_0b4_BUILD1 release_build

• start automation ← monitor progress on buildbot (e.g. release-comm-beta)

E-mail Metrics

Use the address "metrics-alerts < AT > mozilla < PERIOD > org". Note for first-time-releasers: your email will get held for moderator approval - that is expected. If it happens more than once, get help on #metrics.

Thunderbird,thunderbird,thunderbird,13.0b4,13.0

Tag

OK

Bouncer Submitter

OK

Source

OK

Build

Thunderbird

OK

Thunderbird repacks

OK

Updates

OK

Update verify

OK

Reset reserved slaves

[cltbld@buildbot-master34 ~]$ echo "0" > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves

Check permissions / AV scan

OK

Push to internal mirrors

OK

Final verification

OK

Going to Beta

Run backupsnip

# tbirdbld@aus3-staging
~/bin/backupsnip Thunderbird-13.0b4-build1

Push to beta

# tbirdbld@aus3-staging
~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-13.0b4-build1