I have been meaning to respond to a bit of Aki's post which linked to me a while back.
I totally agree on quite a bit, although I'd argue that unless someone really steps up, takes a leadership role, and sets a clear future direction, then sticking with Tinderbox indefinitely …
read moreThanks to the intrepid Mozilla IT Team (in particular Trevor and Justin) for sending me the contents of people.mozilla.com/~rhelmer, I now have the Tinderbox JSON examples back online.
Since it's on my own server now and I have to pay for the bandwidth, I am not auto-refreshing …
read morePeople are often very confused by the state of where Mozilla is with regard to Tinderbox versus Buildbot. They are both continuous integration systems, and you'd think that just jumping wholesale would be easier than the unholy marriage I've described in the past.
The big distinctions are these:
As previously announced on Tinderbox and planet, we're migrating nightly production to running on the same machines as release production.
On the moz1.8 branch, we've been running the new nightlies in parallel with the "traditional" nightlies since Feb 15 2008, and are going to switchover live tomorrow.
The new …
read moreI've just enabled nightly builders from the release automation system on the Mozilla 1.8 tree (see bug 417147 for details).
I've blogged on this previously, but just to reiterate some of the reasons:
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 …
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