Mozilla Release Engineering Docs

This is documentation for the Release Engineering team at Mozilla.

Contents:

Releng Docs

• Tutorials
  • Day 1 checklist
    • Basic
    • Accounts setup
    • Phabricator
    • Mercurial
    • Git & Github
    • Secrets
    • Communication
    • Mana
    • Future access as you need it
    • Good first touchpoint
• How To
  • Release
    • Firefox
    • Mozilla VPN
    • Addons
    • Adhoc
  • Perform Release Duty
    • Updating one ESR version to another
    • Desktop Flatpak Releases
    • Desktop Releases
    • Run staging releases
    • Merge Duty
    • Merge Duty for major ESR bump
    • Interrupt Duty
    • Expectations
    • Communication
    • Permissions
    • Tooling for debugging and rerunning tasks
    • After ReleaseDuty
    • Miscellaneous
    • Hand Off
    • Escalation
    • Other useful resources
    • Glossary
  • Administer Firefox-CI
    • Uploading an image
    • Troubleshooting Workers
    • Taskcluster command line interface (CLI)
    • Testing and Customizing Release Promotion actions
    • Known Problems
    • CI-Admin
    • FirefoxCI cluster upgrades
    • Taskcluster Staging
  • Handle Emergencies
    • Manually submit a release with the Ship It API
    • Manually Beetmove Files
    • Manually Generate Partials
    • Purging the Partials Cache
    • Recover From Expired Artifacts
  • Rotate
    • Firefox GPG Signing Key
    • Rotate hg.m.o cert
  • Troubleshoot
    • Expiration Notifications
    • Analyze Update Verify Logs
  • Test
    • Updates
    • Autograph
  • Create
    • New Scriptworker-Script
    • New Package Format
    • Google Play Deployments
    • How to test release graphs in mobile
    • How to set up taskgraph for mobile
  • Manage L10n
    • L10n-Bumper
    • L10n Cross-channel
    • L10n Repacks
    • Langpacks
    • Android L10n
  • Upload to Internal Pypi
• Explanations
  • Best Practices
    • Project Standards
    • Cross-training
    • Bug Triage
    • Handoffs and Incident Response
    • Security Best Practices
    • Sharing Terminal Sessions
  • Firefox-CI & Taskcluster
    • How Tasks are Triggered
    • Scopes
    • Rerun vs Retrigger
  • Balrog & Updates
    • Balrog and Scheduled Changes
    • Change Update to Last Known Good
    • win32-win64 migration
    • Ending Firefox Support for an Operating System
  • Signing
    • Signing Cert Levels and Best Practices
    • Notarization
    • Inventory and Archival
  • L10n and Release Engineering
    • Extracting en-US strings for localizers
    • Determine which strings to use
    • Creating builds with the strings
    • Taskgraph considerations
    • Unrepack
  • Mozharness
    • BaseLogger
    • BaseConfig
    • BaseScript
    • Mozharness Example
  • Slide Decks
    • Chain of Trust
    • Miscellaneous
  • Releng Test Environments
    • Environment Models
    • Service Environments
    • Scriptworker Environments
    • Staging Releases
  • Tree Closing Window
    • Planning Procedure
  • Tree Closing Window Execution
    • Wednesday Before
    • Day of TCW
    • When TCW Done, Before Opening Trees
    • Next Business Day
• Reference
  • Access Control
    • Overview
  • Machine Users
    • Mercurial Users
  • Production & Staging Logs
  • Releng Changelog
    • During 119.0 >= 2023-08-28
    • During 118.0 >= 2023-07-31
    • During 117.0 >= 2023-07-04
    • During 116.0 >= 2023-06-05
    • During 115.0 >= 2023-05-09
    • During 114.0 >= 2023-04-11
    • During 113.0 >= 2023-03-14
    • During 112.0 >= 2023-02-14
    • During 111.0 >= 2023-01-16
    • During 110.0 >= 2022-12-12
    • During 109.0 >= 2022-11-14
    • During 108.0 >= 2022-10-17
    • During 107.0 >= 2022-08-20
    • During 106.0 >= 2022-08-22
    • During 105.0 >= 2022-07-25
    • During 104.0 >= 2022-06-28
    • During 103.0 >= 2022-05-31
    • During 102.0 >= 2022-05-02
    • During 101.0 >= 2022-04-05
    • During 100.0 >= 2022-03-08
    • During 99.0 >= 2022-02-07
    • During 98.0 >= 2022-01-10
    • During 97.0 >= 2021-12-06
    • During 96.0 >= 2021-11-01
    • During 95.0 >= 2021-10-04
    • During 82.0 >= 2020-09-21
    • During 81.0 >= 2020-08-24
    • During 80.0 >= 2020-07-27
    • During 75.0 >= 2020-04-06
    • During 74.0 >= 2020-03-10
    • During 73.0 >= 2020-02-10
    • During 71.0 >= 2019-10-14
    • During 69.0 >= 2019-05-13
    • During 67.0 >= 2019-03-11
    • During 66.0 >= 2019-01-30
    • During 64.0 >= 2018-10-15
    • During 63.0 >= 2018-09-05
    • During 62.0 >= 2018-06-26
    • During 61.0 >= 2018-05-09
    • During 60.0 >= 2018-03-13
    • During 59.0 >= 2018-01-24
    • During 58.0 >= 2017-11-15
    • During 57.0 >= 2017-09-27
    • During 56.0 >= 2017-08-09
  • External Docs
    • Accessing CloudOps' Jenkins
    • Balrog
    • CloudOps Contact Info
    • Firefox L10n
    • Partner Repacks
    • Releng Mana
    • Scriptworker
    • Scriptworker Scripts
    • Scriptworker-scripts Wiki (mac signing procedures)
    • Taskgraph
    • Treeherder
• Meta
  • Community Participation Guidelines
    • How to Report
  • Add a new repo to docs
    • Pre-requisites
    • Enable RTFD updates on github
    • Add repo to Releng Account on RTFD
    • Assign maintainers to the repo on RTFD
  • Add existing repo to docs
    • Adding Sphinx to a project with no docs yet
    • Adding autodoc to a project already using Sphinx
    • Tweaking the conf.py file
  • Maintaining this Documentation
    • Contributing
    • Reference
    • Motivation

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page