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Last checkins for alpha 1:

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Bugs

Tracking bug for Thunderbird 3.0a2 - bug 445991

Tags

Build data

Build 1

Bootstrap tag: RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M10_1

Setup before starting:

• look for changes to the nightly mozconfig/tinder-config.pl files, merge any desired changes to release branch
• tag new version of tinderbox and release automation to pick up branding changes in Thunderbird-land, RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M10_1
• On fx-{linux,mac,win32}-1.9-slave2, set up tinderbox directories

# on linux and mac (skip to windows otherwise)
cd /builds/tinderbox/mozilla/tools/tinderbox
cvs up -r RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M10_1
cd /builds/tinderbox
mkdir Tb-Mozilla1.9-Release
cd Tb-Mozilla1.9-Release
../mozilla/tools/tinderbox/install-links

# on windows
cd /e/builds/tinderbox/mozilla/tools/tinderbox
cvs up -r RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M10_1
cd /e/
mkdir tb19rel
cd tb19rel
cp /e/builds/tinderbox/mozilla/tools/tinderbox/{build-seamonkey.pl,build-seamonkey-util.pl,gettime.pl,bloatdiff.pl,tinder-defaults.pl,reportdata.pl,post-mozilla-rel.pl,post-mozilla-l10n.pl} .
cp post-mozilla-rel.pl post-mozilla.pl

# all platforms
rm tinderbox
cvs -d cltbld@cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -r release -d tinderbox-configs mozilla/tools/tinderbox-configs/thunderbird/linux # or macosx or win32
ln -s tinderbox-configs/mozconfig
ln -s tinderbox-configs/tinder-config.pl

• repeat build setup (from the mkdir above) for Tb-Mozilla1.9-l10n-Release (linux/mac) and /e/tb19l10nrel (win32); pull config from l10n_release branch of CVS
• get tbirdbld keys onto these three slaves (for symbols, copy from tbird nightly box), and make sure dm-symbolpush01.mozilla.org has been accepted
• didn't cleanup space on slaves, should be enough free already
• lets go:

buildbot sendchange --username=nthomas --master=localhost:9989 -m"Thunderbird 3.0a2build1 release" gogogo

Tag

• automated, but
  • in between mozilla/mail/locales/shipped-locales being checked out and the relbranch being created, cvs up -A on shipped-locales (to support late shipped-locales checkin see "Build" below)
  • make sure l10n checkout works on the builders, do this on a build box (this turned out to not work as expected)

cvs -d cltbld@cvs.mozilla.org:/l10n co -r THUNDERBIRD_3_0a2_RELEASE -p l10n/de/browser/README.txt

There was an execution error updating shipped-locales - the command used was just "cvs up -A" in mail/locales, so we also pulled in fixes for:

davida signed off on these additional changes without retagging and building.

Source

• automated

Build

• automated, with issues
• the l10n checkout trick in Tag didn't work (perhaps because it's -p to print to the screen) so the Linux repack failed to checkout out any l10n source. Manually ran the cvs command again (without -p), adjusted the master config to skip the TinderConfig and en-US build steps, and forced a linux build
• the Mac build failed. Turns out the source timestamp provided didn't include all the of the branding changes to Shredder. We set the tinder-config.pl to use a product name of 'Thunderbird', which results in a Thunderbird.app package
• Symbol collection failed for mac (bug 411171), fixed with

# cltbld@fx-mac-1.9-slave2
make -C /builds/tinderbox/Tb-Mozilla1.9-Release/Darwin_8.8.4_Depend/mozilla/../build/universal/ppc buildsymbols
SYMBOL_SERVER_HOST=dm-symbolpush01.mozilla.org \ 
 SYMBOL_SERVER_USER=tbirdbld \ 
 SYMBOL_SERVER_PATH=/mnt/netapp/breakpad/symbols_tbrd \
 SYMBOL_SERVER_SSH_KEY=/Users/cltbld/.ssh/tbirdbld_dsa \
 make -C /builds/tinderbox/Tb-Mozilla1.9-Release/Darwin_8.8.4_Depend/mozilla/../build/universal/ppc uploadsymbols

Bump version numbers

Changed Thunderbird version to 3.0b1pre in comm-central - patch

Stage

l10n QA checks are here, and some locales have enough issues that we should not ship them (es-ES, ka, sk, sv-SE). Need to update shipped-locales before calling the Stage builder:

# cltbld@fx-linux-1.9-slave2
/builds/tags/THUNDERBIRD_3_0a2_BUILD1/cvsroot/mozilla/mail/locales
cvs stat shipped-locales      # rev1.3, up to date on GECKO190_20080725_RELBRANCH
# edit shipped-locales to remove 4 locales
cvs diff -u shipped-locales
# verify only the 4 locales above are removed
cvs ci -m "Update shipped-locales for 3.0a2 release, me=nthomas" shipped-locales
# new rev is 1.3.2.1
cvs tag THUNDERBIRD_3_0a2_STAGE shipped-locales
cvs tag -F THUNDERBIRD_3_0a2_RELEASE shipped-locales

Then force a build on the Stage builder using the buildbot waterfall.

This fails out because thunderbird is not a group on fx-linux-1.9-slave2. Fix with

# as root
groupadd thunderbird
usermod -a -G thunderbird cltbld

the switch back to cltbld and restart the buildbot slave. Remove /data/cltbld/thunderbird-3.0a2/, then force another build.

Whadyaknow, it failed again. Stopped buildbot, logged out of cltbld, logged on and restarted buildbot. Forced another build after removing /data/cltbld/thunderbird-3.0a2/.

Sign Installers

• follow installer-signing-instructions here
• complete stage-merged:

# on stage
cd /data/cltbld/thunderbird-3.0a2/
rsync -av batch1/mar/ stage-merged/
rsync -av batch1/stage-signed/ stage-merged/

• Create MD5 and SHA1 checksum files

# on stage as cltbld
cd /data/cltbld/thunderbird-3.0a2/stage-merged/
~/bin/checksum-files .

• Fix permissions & ownership (on the detached sigs and the two SUM files respectively)

chown -R cltbld:thunderbird .
chmod 644 *SUMS

Release

• get the last formal "go" from Thunderbird QA & release-drivers
• push the stage-merged directory to the releases area :

# on stage
rsync -av /data/cltbld/thunderbird-3.0a2/stage-merged/ /home/ftp/pub/thunderbird/releases/3.0a2/

Update Bouncer

• Add entries to download.mozilla.org - installers only