Mozilla2 Buildbot Downtime – Sometime today (May 12, 2008)
May 12th, 2008
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.
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.
On April 21, 2008 between 5am and 7am PDT the Try Server will be down for maintenance. For the curious, details of the work are in bug 428308.
The Mozilla2 and Mobile Buildbots will also be down for migration to a new host. Details of this work are in bug 429562.
If there’s any reason we can’t go ahead with this please e-mail release@mozilla.org.
Nightly updates on Mozilla2 builds.
April 18th, 2008
As of today, anyone running a mozilla-central nightly build (all zero of you) will start receiving nightly updates for it. There isn’t a whole lot going on there right now but this is another step is getting 1.9 parity on Mozilla2. Many many thanks to nthomas for teaching me so much about the update system while getting this going.
At some point in the future we plan to enable updates for other branches as well, such as actionmonkey.
Mozilla2, Linux 64-bit, and Mobile
March 11th, 2008
Over the past month there’s been some new builds set-up. We now have Mobile and Mozilla 2 tinderboxes, as well as Linux 64-bit builds.
Mobile builds are done on Linux ARM, inside of Scratchbox. For more details about the Mobile platform setup, see the ref platform doc. Builds are not yet being published, but we hope to get them going soon. Details are in bug 418852.
We have very very basic Mozilla2 infrastructure up. Linux and Windows builds are going, Mac is pending. Currently, actionmonkey and mozilla-central are built. There is no unit or perf testing as of yet. You can find these builds here and here. These builds are labeled as Firefox 4.0a1pre to avoid confusion with the current CVS trunk but that’s the _only_ reason they are named as such. We are a ways off from Firefox 4 and these builds should not be considered as previews of it. I’ve seen some blog posts about “Firefox 4 Alpha 1″ being released and I want to stress that this is NOT the case. The ‘pre’ in the version strings means ‘prerelease’ – aka. not yet released. For all of the nitty gritty details on Moz2 builds, see this tracking bug.
Last but not least, Linux 64-bit builds have been set-up. They are built on CentOS 5.0 with GCC 4.2.3 and follow the same mozconfig as 32-bit dep/nightly builds. You can see them on the MozillaExperimental tinderbox for now, but they should be pushed to the Firefox tree by the end of the week. You can find the hourly builds here and the nightly builds here (the same place as 32-bit Firefox builds). These builds are being done primarily to “catch bugs in visibility handling” and make sure we don’t break x86_64. At this time, there is no plans to do 64-bit releases.