1608874 - [meta] Migrate Fennec users over to Fenix

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation: Other, enhancement)

Description

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Meta bug to track the Releng work.

Comment 1

[Jordan Lund (:jlund)]

thanks for getting this started. I forgot I had some old tickets started. The plan has somewhat changed [multiple times!] since so happy to close my original bug and merge into this one. whatever you prefer: Bug 1598373 - [tracking] fennec end of life

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598373

Comment 2

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

No problem! It turns out there's a very small overlap. Let's use bug 1598373 to track everything related to the end of Fennec and keep this one to migrate Fennec users.

Comment 3

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 1608874 - Fenix: Enable fennec-production temporary hook r=mtabara

Comment 4

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [scriptworker-scripts] Enable fennec-production on the mobile instances

Comment 5

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [fenix] part 1: Move Fennec Beta to a dedicated hook

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/ci/ci-configuration/rev/eea36d6445b1
Fenix: Enable fennec-production temporary hook r=mtabara

Comment 7

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 1608874 - part 2: Fix broken checkout argument r=mtabara

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/ci/ci-configuration/rev/99bd6327c4a1
part 2: Fix broken checkout argument r=mtabara

Comment 9

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 1608874 - part 3: Put fennec-beta scopes back to GH release r=mtabara

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/ci/ci-configuration/rev/b5df4ab6e3c5
part 3: Put fennec-beta scopes back to GH release r=mtabara

Comment 11

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

error: GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FIREFOX_RELEASE is not set

Looks like we're missing a sops and/or cloudops change. I backed out your latest commit from production-pushapkscript to unblock #releaseduty-mobile.

Comment 12

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

(In reply to Aki Sasaki [:aki] (he/him) (UTC-7) from comment #11)

error: GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FIREFOX_RELEASE is not set

Looks like we're missing a sops and/or cloudops change. I backed out your latest commit from production-pushapkscript to unblock #releaseduty-mobile.

Fixed SOPS, re-pushed master to production-pushapkscript. Things should be good now.
Johan is PTO this week, cleaning the NI for him as well.

Comment 13

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [fenix] part 2: Rename cron hook too

Comment 14

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [fenix] part 3: Let fennec-production upload APKs on Google Play's alpha track

Comment 15

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 1608874 - Remove Fennec as a shippable product r=rail,Callek

Comment 16

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [shipit] Remove Fennec now that the Fenix migration has started

Comment 17

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [scriptworker-scripts] part 2: Remove Fennec Nightly/Beta/Release production w

Comment 18

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Comment on attachment 9166760 [details]
Bug 1608874 - Remove Fennec as a shippable product r=rail,Callek

ESR Uplift Approval Request

• If this is not a sec:{high,crit} bug, please state case for ESR consideration: Prevent people from inadvertently shipping Fennec.
• User impact if declined: Huge. We may break release users who have already been migrated to Fenix.
• Fix Landed on Version:
• Risk to taking this patch: Low
• Why is the change risky/not risky? (and alternatives if risky): Low risk, this is isn't part of the final product. It just removes the taskcluster code that enabled promoting/shipping Fennec
• String or UUID changes made by this patch: None

Comment 19

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

Attachment: [scriptworker-scripts] part 3: more cleanup in Fennec nightly, Fenix nightly and Fenix beta

Comment 20

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Comment on attachment 9166760 [details]
Bug 1608874 - Remove Fennec as a shippable product r=rail,Callek

Approved for ESR68.

Comment 21

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr68/rev/0176d50e188d

Comment 22

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Fenix is now offered to 100% of our user base. Closing bug.

Comment 23

[pa-dev]

@jlorenzo wrote:

Fenix is now offered to 100% of our user base.

You have not reached 100% yet. As of 09/25/2020 there is no way to install Firefox Fenix on an Android mobile device via direct APK download. There are some people out there (including me), who do not want to use/install Google Play on their otherwise privacy-friendly mobile devices. (Privacy-friendliness and open source are the two reasons for me being a Firefox user since 2003). But at the moment, Google Play seems to be the only way to install Firefox Fenix.

Please see discussion in: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1305577

If I understand #1663735 correct, solving #1614763 would provide APK downloads again. In my opinion as a user, it would be okay, to download the APKs from https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases/ or https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/releases, as long as those places are official Mozilla sites and APKs are provided reliable. (At the moment, releases on github have APKs bundled only in ~20%)

Comment 24

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Hi pa-dev,

You're right, I misspoke. It's not crystal clear when I now read the whole bug, but I implied we migrated Google Play users. I totally understand why you disagreed with comment 22, I wasn't explicit about what I meant. I apologize.

I understand your concern and I agree: direct APK download should be supported. It has some value to Mozilla too: this makes regression testing easier. We didn't have enough bandwidth to provide builds on archive.mozilla.org before Fenix went live. Mozilla decided to implement it later. A new problem has come since that decision, though: Mozilla laid off many people last month. This has notably impacted direct APK downloads.

I am currently advocating for making this a priority. Your message and the support.m.o link you provided help me in this regard.

I have some good news in the meantime: starting Fenix 82, APKs are automatically uploaded to Github releases. It's tracked at bug 1648785 and I plan to finish it up this week. You can follow the archive.m.o uploads at bug 1614763.

I hope this helps.

Comment 25

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/93c7aa302f91
[fenix] Bug 1608874 - part 1: Move Fennec Beta to a dedicated hook (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/11048)
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6a96fccb9dcb
[fenix] Bug 1608874 - part 2: Rename cron hook too (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/11225)
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9d6b7be06f4a
[fenix] Bug 1608874 - part 3: Let fennec-production upload APKs on Google Play's alpha track