NSPR/NSS/JSS Mac OS X build/QA/tinderbox support
The beginning of the title to this post is either a really poor set of letters for a game of Scrabble, or…
In December, 2008, the Community Giving Program provided five Mac Minis to the NSS community that are being used as 1) an internal build machine, 2) an internal nightly automated QA machine, 3) an NSS stable branch tinderbox, 4) an NSS trunk tinderbox, and 5) a developer test/QA machine.
Today, on behalf of the NSS community, Glen Beasley updated me with a quick report:
“We have been running full internal build/QA on two of the Mac Mini’s. These reports can be sent to external NSS users if they request to be on the list. We also have tinderboxes for 32 bit and 64 bit Mac OS X builds.”
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/NSS/
“In the past months the Mac OS tinderbox’s have revealed a few developer build breakages and QA issues that likely would have gone unnoticed for several days/weeks had we not had the tinderbox/build machines in place.”
The first four machines benefit Mac OS X support because, in the past, we have gone weeks before finding out that a Mac OS build had been broken by a checkin. With more solid Tier 1 build/QA support for Mac OS X, the community has been able to find breakages sooner. Finally, the last Mini is accessible by NSS developers to address build/regression failures and develop Mac OS X specific functionality.
It should also be mentioned that anyone interested in contributing to the NSPR/NSS/JSS team should comment here and I will be sure to make the introductions to Glen and the team.
As always, if you know of any potential recipients for Community Giving program that would empower someone or a community with Mozilla, please let me know. Though I focus mostly on Localization, this program is still thriving and we are always seeking leveraged opportunities to support recipients.
This is definitely a great example of the impact of Community Giving.
That said, I would hope that now that Chrome is using NSPR and NSS that the NSS team would have no reason to want for resources.
Scrabble, or TLA buzzword bingo!
The new meme is the second sentence of any blog post should always explain the project. You’re the marketing department; you never get a second chance to make a first impression. I vaguely knew what NSS is but I’d never heard of JSS before.
Thanks Mozilla for so many contributions: tinderbox /talos /Remora/ XyzMonkey … !