543624 - Incorporate Firefox CD process into the release steps

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

The cdmaker scripts will soon be checked into hg and once they are it should be possible to set up a builder that can be (manually?) triggered after a release to create a .iso and put it up on ftp. This way all our future releases will have a corresponding CD image.

Comment 1

[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 3

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Cdmaker scripts in hg.mozilla.org/build/tools

Comment 4

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

The CD is no longer in the store:
  http://intlstore.mozilla.org/index.php?cPath=1

Is there any desire to put it back there ?

Comment 5

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

FWIW, I'm not sure it makes sense to do this in a rapid release world, where the CD stock would be refreshed every 6 weeks. Did we ever ship enough units to justify the work involved ?

Comment 6

[John Slater]

No strong desire to put the CD back in the store, mainly b/c of what Nick points out in comment #5. It would simply be *way* too much effort to justify it at this point.

If you need a CD for other purposes we can leave this bug open, but if it's primarily for the store I'm fine with a WONTFIX here.

Comment 7

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

Thanks John. We don't need a CD for anything else, so WONTFIX it is.