842992 - l10n changesets error messages in release sanity suck

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

When we check the revisions of l10n repos in release sanity we do a simple http get to URLs such as: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-beta/zh-CN/file/1e65623aaf2e

When we get ANY failure from them, we throw a message like:
ERROR : cannot find l10n locale zh-CN in repo https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-beta/zh-CN/file/1e65623aaf2e

There's a couple of  problems with this:
1) The error message is ambiguous (it should say something like "couldn't find revision X for locale Y at URL Z)
2) Not all errors should be treated equally. 5xx errors should throw a different (after retrying, if possible).

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Attachment: make it better

Bonus: checks locales in alphabetical order.