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

Build 1

Ship the l10n milestone

• Went to https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/milestones
• Clicked on "new milestones" link
• Clicked "clear aurora"
• Clicked "X" for everything except "Thunderbird beta"
• Clicked "Submit"

Set the reserved slaves

# cltbld@bm30
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

• moved 5-6 win64 slaves

Start the automation

#ffxbld@stage
version=15.0b2
product=thunderbird
cd /pub/mozilla.org/$product/nightly/
mkdir ../candidates/$version-candidates
ln -s ../candidates/$version-candidates $version-candidates

• Double landed configs
• Tagged configs, custom, tools
• Updated+reconfiged bm30

Ran release_sanity:

PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u rail \
      -V 15.0b2 --build-number 1 --branch comm-beta \
      --release-config release-thunderbird-comm-beta.py --product thunderbird \
      --dryrun localhost:9001

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

Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves

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

Run pushsnip

~/bin/pushsnip Thunderbird-15.0b2-build1

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