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.


You! Can help make the Try Server better.

April 30th, 2008 by bhearsum

Once or twice a month a bug is filed on the try server. I see all of these go by and typically say something like “this would be cool, I don’t have time to do it”. Someone mentioned to me that they were going to blog about a specific try server to try and get [...]


[UPDATED] Try Server, Mozilla2, Mobile Downtime - April 21, 2008, 5am - 8am PDT

April 18th, 2008 by bhearsum

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 [...]


Try Server Downtime - April 21, 2008, 5am - 7am PDT

April 17th, 2008 by bhearsum

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. If there’s any reason we can’t go ahead with this please e-mail release@mozilla.org.


Try Server Symbol Server

April 8th, 2008 by bhearsum

As of earlier today, the try server began uploading windows debugging symbols to a symbol server. For those of you interested in debugging your Windows try server builds you can follow the same instructions listed on devmo replacing http://symbols.mozilla.org/firefox with http://build.mozilla.org/tryserver-symbols. (For posterity, this information is also recorded on the try server wiki page. Any [...]


Try Server Updates

January 24th, 2008 by bhearsum

There’s been some small but important updates to the Try Server the past week. Here’s a list!:

One additional Windows slave and one additional Linux slave were added. This should reduce the length of time it takes to get your patches tested.
configure.in changes can now be tested.
The build timeouts were bumped up to an hour (of [...]


Try server purdyness

December 10th, 2007 by bhearsum

Johnath has gone to the trouble to make the try server look much nicer. I’ve been hoping someone would do this for awhile. It’s now got a nice favicon, sensible title, and better layout. Check it out here (ldap required).