The Release Engineering team fully-automated the publication of Firefox for Android in version 53.0. Let’s see what was already there and how things have changed since version 53.0.

This blog post is a part of a serial. Checkout the other posts:

How did the project start?

Presentation of the solution

5 things I would have loved knowing about Google Play

What’s next? Want to contribute? & Special thanks [Here]

What’s next? Want to contribute?

The initial publication was the first big step of the project. The next big one will be to expand the release workflow to simplify what percentage of the user base is getting the latest update.

If you want to contribute, there are also a few open bugs. You might also want to take look at MozApkPublisher and pushapkscript to see how we added our checks.

Finally, if you have some stories on how you use Google Play you would like to share, questions or comments about our tools, please leave a comment.

Special thanks

A lot of people were involved in a way or another in this project. By alphabetical order:

Rail Aliiev, for the help spawning nightly tasks against the correct events and more hints
Chris AtLee, for guiding me during the entire project and always pointing me in the right direction
Chris Cooper, for organizing the Taskcluster migration work week, which allowed to put the last bits for Firefox 53.0
Julien Cristau, for giving feedback from Release Management’s point of view at almost every step we made
Guillaume Destuynder, for reviewing the security risks
Ben Hearsum, for reading and testing out the documentation in place
Liz Henry, for helping with Google Play permissions
Sylvestre Ledru, for the initial solution and the overall administration of Google Play
Francesco Lodolo, for detecting and helping diagnose locales-related bugs
Jordan Lund, for the help in the 52 release duty cycle, while the taskgraph was being finished up in 53
Ritu Kothari, for initiating the new rollout process
Amy Rich, for watching my back with Puppet
Aki Sasaki, for helping me with scriptworker and reviewing so many of my patches across several components
Mihai Tabara, for wiring the last parts of the Taskcluster graph together
Justin Woods, for the tips and tricks of Taskcluster’s taskgraph
Anybody involved in the Android Taskcluster migration, and who might not be in this list
The reviewers of these articles
And anyone I missed above

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