Thought-provoking post over on isabel wang's blog:
When you ask for X hours of someone's time to help put up pre-made signs or read off telemarketing scripts, each volunteer means no more to you than just another undifferentiated source of labor. No one is put to their highest and best …read more
Many people have told me that they were excited about the JSON Tinderbox feed, but were quickly discouraged from doing anything fun due to the scary data structure that it presents; it's a straight dump of what the server uses, and is obviously optimized towards making a waterfall display (plus …
read moreLots of feedback on the build-on-checkin idea in my blog, the newsgroup, and especially joduinn's recent post on the subject. The primary concerns seem to be:
I've filed bug 410869 to track this. I think the way we do this …
read moreIf you care about the behavior of the Firefox perf test machines, please check out my post moving Mozilla1.8 tinderboxes to Buildbot - perf impact in the mozilla.dev.performance newsgroup.
The big question is whether we can move to a model where we only build on checkin rather than …
read moreI've set up the release automation staging server for the Mozilla 1.8 branch (Firefox 2.x) to also generate nightly builds and depend builds on checkin to the branch (using buildbot's BonsaiPoller). I outlined some of the advantages to this release automation/nightly+depend integration in my previous post …
read moreAs I mentioned previously, I've been working on incrementally moving our Tinderbox client installs over to Buildbot.
The first step is to switch from driving Tinderbox from Buildbot and our release automation system, instead of being driven on each machine from the multi-tinderbox script. The release automation still calls Tinderbox …
read moreI've started working on migrating the Firefox nightly builds to use the same release automation system that we've been developing for the past year or so for maintenance releases (Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0x and 2.0.0.x). The reason this is important is that each nightly release …
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Dmitri Robin has a Posse
As promised, I have published a more AJAXy example of the classic Tinderbox waterfall, built using the new Tinderbox JSON output mode:
http://people.mozilla.org/~rhelmer/mockups/tinderbox/ajax.html
This version uses gzip encoding for the JSON data, only reloads the page when new data is available, and …
read moreWe took a big step towards truly hands-off releases by doing a (very early) Firefox 2.0.0.7 RC1 with the Buildbot-enabled release automation system. There are still some kinks to work out, but overall things are looking great.
The elapsed machine time from "code freeze" to "ready …
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