mozilla/tools/buildbot being upgraded to 0.7.9
September 30th, 2008 by bhearsum
Buildbot 0.7.9 was released a couple weeks ago. Today I will be importing it into our CVS tree, upgrading the aging 0.7.7 code. Before doing an import I will branch the current tip of trunk as BUILDBOT_0_7_7_BRANCH. This will let us easily checkout 0.7.7 code and if necessary, land 0.7.7 specific fixes.
Any checkouts of mozilla/tools/buildbot [...]
Upcoming changes to nightly update generation
September 12th, 2008 by bhearsum
Don’t panic. If all goes well nothing will change from a nightly-build-user perspective. We are going to be moving to a more sane system for the generation of nightly .mar files and AUS2 snippets. Details below, but first, some background.
Rob Helmer talked a lot about AUS and updates, mostly regarding releases. What he did not [...]
Useful symbols for OS X builds!
September 8th, 2008 by bhearsum
Some of you may have noticed bug 448616. It turns out that we have not had proper breakpad symbols for OS X builds *ever* on 3.1 builds. This caused our OS X crash reports to be sigificantly less useful We’ve had a heck of a time isolating the problem. It took quite a few manual [...]
Mozilla Scheduled Maintenance - 08/18/2008, 5am - 7am PDT
August 15th, 2008 by bhearsum
During this time we will be landing two things:
* Test reporting to graphs.mozilla.org for codesighs and leak tests on mozilla-central (
bug 433710)
* Support for pushing try server builds to an hg.m.o repository (details later) (bug 448014)
No downtime is expected.
If there is any reason why we shouldn’t go ahead with this please e-mail release@mozilla.com
[repost] Try Server Update - Building from mozilla-central with a patch is now possible!
July 16th, 2008 by bhearsum
Not much else to say - bug 437143 (try servers need to support building from a mercurial repository with a patch) has been fixed. You can now submit patches against HG repositories with a patch.
Many thanks to Vlad, who did most of the work on this.
Try Server Update - Building from mozilla-central with a patch is now possible!
July 14th, 2008 by bhearsum
Not much else to say - bug 437143 (try servers need to support building from a mercurial repository with a patch) has been fixed. You can now submit patches against HG repositories with a patch.
Many thanks to Vlad, who did most of the work on this.
Mozilla Scheduled Downtime for Tinderbox Moving - 07/04/2008, 5am - 10am PDT (approx)
July 3rd, 2008 by bhearsum
During this time we will be moving around tinderboxes (as discussed in the “Moving Tinderboxes” thread). After this maintenance is done, the following changes will have been made:
* All Firefox 3.0.x/Gecko 1.9.0.x/CVS trunk tinderboxes will report to the soon-to-be-created “Firefox3.0″ tree. (http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Firefox3.0/)
* All Firefox 3.1/Gecko 1.9.1/mozilla-central tinderboxes will report to the “Firefox” tree.
(http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Firefox/)
* The ‘Mozilla2′ [...]
VMware ESX
June 6th, 2008 by bhearsum
As has been previous documented, we have a *lot* of VMs for Release Engineering purposes. We often need to start, stop, edit, or do other management things to them. For a long time this meant using the Virtual Infrastructure client, which is…quite buggy, and only runs on Windows. Awhile ago I discovered the VMware Web [...]
Mozilla2 Buildbot Downtime - Sometime today (May 12, 2008)
May 12th, 2008 by bhearsum
Sometime today (May 12, 2008) the Mozilla2 Buildbot will be down to enable debug+leaktest slaves.. For the curious, details of the work are in bug 422296.
If there’s any reason we can’t go ahead with this please e-mail release@mozilla.org.
Mozilla2, Mobile Buildbot Downtime - May 5, 2008, 5am - 7am PDT
May 1st, 2008 by bhearsum
On May 5, 2008 between 5am and 7am PDT the Mozilla2 and Mobile Buildbots will be down for maintenance. For the curious, details of the work are in bug 429001.
If there’s any reason we can’t go ahead with this please e-mail release@mozilla.org.