449828 - Produce updates for l10n nightly builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

We've never produced nightly updates for l10n before, on cvs or on hg. Until now, localizers manually download new builds as/when they can.

This is something we think we can do, after some of the other l10n cleanup work is completed. After the summit, we *know* the localizers will like it, because they said so!! :-)

Before we can do this, we need to know we're producing better quality nightly repacks. It would be bad for someone who is on a working l10n nightly build to be automatically updated to a known-broken l10n build the next night. 

Some requirements are:
- dont produce an l10n build with missing entities. For newly added entities that are missing from the locale, figure a way to temporarily, add the new entity and en-US string so at least the build will be usable.
- run the l10n builds through unittest or something similar before making available.
- use the same update generation logic as used for l10n releases.

...but anyone got other suggestions?

Comment 1

[Gerd]

Hello,

I would suggest adding this functionality to the standard en-US builds. As far as I understand, the l10n builds are derived from the en-US builds. If we had this code already there, we would not have to add it again and again every time we derive a l10n biuld from an en-US build.

Kind regards.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Hi Gerd, the localized builds do have the same update functionality as the en-US ones, and we use that for the release builds already. And we have en-US nightly updates, so mostly the work here is in infrastructure to produce the localised update files and offer them to users of nightly builds.

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Mass move of bugs from Release Engineering:Future -> Release Engineering. See
http://coop.deadsquid.com/2010/02/kiss-the-future-goodbye/ for more details.

Comment 4

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Currently available for mozilla-central and 1.9.2. We've decided against offering nightly updates to l10n users on the 1.9.1 branch (bug 511510) in favor of targeting a newer branch, e.g. lorentz.