9. Tinderbox JSON - now with 100% more AJAX

   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 …

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10. Towards human-free releases

    We 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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11. Tinderbox waterfall in Javascript

    Just a quick follow-up on my earlier post about Tinderbox's new JSON output mode - I've hacked up a quick working example of the waterfall page in Javascript. You can view the source to see how you could extract any of this info from Tinderbox.

    Here's a screenshot in case it …

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12. Tinderbox JSON output

    Thanks to justdave for getting our Tinderbox server installation up to date!

    One of the new features I'd like to highlight is a quick&dirty JSON output format.

    This is different from all of the existing Tinderbox modes (e.g. quickparse) in that it's a dump of the internal data …

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13. visual cues

    The Tinderbox waterfall page is pretty detail-heavy. I see a lot of complaints specifically that the page gets too wide, making it hard to see at a glance if anything is failing to compile or failing a test (which for Mozilla means that you can't check in until it's fixed …

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14. pretty pictures

    preed always makes fun of my release process diagram (as seen on whiteboards everywhere):

    

    release process

    So I made a fancier one, showing the inside of each of these steps:

    

    step

    However, I still feel that preed doesn't appreciate it, so I dedicate this diagram to morgamic.

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15. Bootstraps, pulling oneself up by one's

    We've been using the release automation scripts, aka Bootstrap, for the past several releases. We've hit some bumps but overall we've improved quality as we've been pushing changes into the scripts instead of having to document and remember to re-check a large list of "gotchas" whenever we run into problems …

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16. buildbot "try" support

    As many of you know by now, Ben Hearsum has been doing awesome work on Buildbot integration, such as:

    * bonsai support

    * publishing to tinderbox

    * setup and administration of the seneca cluster

    Now the awesomeness continues, as we're working on a Buildbot "try" server to allow developers to upload patches that …

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17. The Automaton

    The staging environment for the release automation project (aka "bootstrap") is up and running. This includes a CVS mirror, so everything from tagging to build to updates (with verification each step along the way) can be done without affecting the production environment.

    The setup/teardown of the environment is scripted …

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18. vacation, state of release automation

    I will be on vacation from October 16th through the 23rd in Toronto, and giving a lecture at Seneca on the 20th. If you are in the area and want to hang out, feel free to give me a buzz.

    The release automation work is at a reasonably happy place …

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