672421 - Beta builds have Aurora branding, at e.g. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-beta-linux/

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 659552

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 1. Download the current latest "mozilla-beta-linux" tinderbox-build, from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-beta-linux/1311015931/firefox-6.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
  (this is the latest mozilla-beta-linux build available at the moment)
 2. Run it.  Visit about:buildconfig

ACTUAL RESULTS: The browser has "Aurora" branding, even though about:buildconfig shows that it's "Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/65ed6316d72d "

EXPECTED RESULTS: Firefox branding

Confirmed on latest mozilla-beta-win32 build, too.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I discovered this when trying to find archived beta builds that we've shipped to beta users (to debug a crash report from the beta channel).

I was directed to the above directory, as a place where I could download these beta builds.  If I should be looking somewhere else, please let me know.

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I was directed to the above directory, as a place where I could download
> these beta builds.  If I should be looking somewhere else, please let me
> know.

Found out in #build that the official/released beta builds are here:
 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/6.0b2-candidates/

I think this bug is still valid, though -- it's confusing to generate beta builds with aurora branding.  Maybe they shouldn't get official branding -- perhaps something else (nightly?) -- but they also shouldn't get the Aurora-channel-specific branding when the code has been post-Aurora for weeks.

Comment 3

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

This is the slightly untidy result of the way we're doing builds for the beta channel. 

As you say, the actual builds for releasing end up in firefox/nightly/6.0bN-candidates/ for QA purposes, and are copied to firefox/releases/6.0bN/ for end users (use ftp://ftp.m.o to see them). These come from runs of the release automation previously used for 4.0*, 3.6*, etc. They have Firefox branding.

We also need to create builds when people land in mozilla-beta, and they end up in firefox/tinderbox-builds/. They don't have Firefox branding because of a long standing policy of not creating any development builds which look like official builds. I agree Aurora branding isn't great, and we've used the codenames like Gran Paradiso in the past instead.