563138 - Make funnelcake builds easier for Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Messaging Graveyard :: Release Engineering, defect, P5)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Following the first funnelcake builds, and the desire to do this more frequently, we need to make producing the builds easier.

Bug 551720 / attachment 437575 [details] [diff] [review] had a patch to http://hg.mozilla.org/build/partner-repacks/ to make this easier for the first build.

Steps to fix up automation etc:
- Allow distribution.ini to specify preferences. This would mean we just have to provide a distribution.ini and not a prefs file as well - which fits better with the existing partner-repacks repository.

- Find a way to alter urls that we monitor without those urls being broken if we change them (e.g. planned what's new upgrade).

- Do we want to display "Funnelcake / 1.0" separately in the about window? Firefox does this, but I believe it is primarily for partner builds, not necessarily funnelcakes.

- Provide a proper patch to the partner-repacks directory so that it supports Firefox or Thunderbird via a command line switch.

- Potentially hook up the repacks scripts to buildbots, so that when we do a point release we'll automatically get equivalent funnelcake builds as well.

This is the tracking bug for all of this, I'll raise individual bugs as we go forward.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

AFAIK we're not planning on doing funnelcake builds at the moment. If we do later we can re-open this and fixing some of the issues will be easier as we've now implemented distribution.ini in Thunderbird.