9. Towards human-free releases

   We took a big step towards truly hands-off releases by doing a (very early) Firefox 2.0.0.7 RC1 with the Buildbot-enabled release automation system. There are still some kinks to work out, but overall things are looking great.

   The elapsed machine time from "code freeze" to "ready …

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10. pretty pictures

    preed always makes fun of my release process diagram (as seen on whiteboards everywhere):

    

    release process

    So I made a fancier one, showing the inside of each of these steps:

    

    step

    However, I still feel that preed doesn't appreciate it, so I dedicate this diagram to morgamic.

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11. The Automaton

    The staging environment for the release automation project (aka "bootstrap") is up and running. This includes a CVS mirror, so everything from tagging to build to updates (with verification each step along the way) can be done without affecting the production environment.

    The setup/teardown of the environment is scripted …

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12. automation, buildbot, svk

    For Firefox and Thunderbird, we assign one build/release engineer per release (as part of the "release team" for that version). I've been the release engineer for 3 of the Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.x cycles and 2 of the BonEcho alphas, so (I hope!) that I am starting …

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