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 [...]
Linux Reference Platform RC2
January 11th, 2008 by bhearsum
Thanks to those people that downloaded and RC1 of the Linux ref platform. There was one small bug found (the wrong GCC version is used), so I’ve spun an RC2. As before you can find it on ftp.mozilla.org.
In much more exciting news, Chris Tyler made available a KVM image of the ref platform. An image [...]
Stuck on Build
January 8th, 2008 by bhearsum
As was announced at the Weekly Meeting yesterday my permanent, full-time position is now in Build.
I’m pretty excited by this move. The first thing I did for Mozilla was write a couple of Buildbot plugins. I’ve mostly been doing Build work since then, first as schoolwork, then as a contractor, and now as an employee. [...]
Mozilla Tinderbox Downtime - January 8, 2008, 5am - 8am PST
January 7th, 2008 by bhearsum
On January 8, 2008 between the hours of 5am and 8am PST the Firefox and l10n Tinderboxes will be down.
The Win32 build machines for these tinderboxes are set to be upgraded to the most recent version. Details are in Bug 402848.If there’s any reason we can’t go ahead with this tomorrow morning, please e-mail build@mozilla.org.
Downloadable Linux Build Environment
January 4th, 2008 by bhearsum
Hot on the heels of MozillaBuild 1.2, RC1 of the Build Team’s Linux Reference Platform is available in the form of a VMware Image. It should work (read: has been tested with) VMware Workstation 6, Fusion, and Player. With this image you should be able to boot it up and download/compile Mozilla without any further [...]