Archive for October, 2008
AMO API Fennec Support
The AMO API supports Fennec now. We pushed Bug 453517 to update services.addons.mozilla.org to work with the Fennec alpha and future Fennec versions. Read More »
Crash Stats updated with Flot
As we headed closer and closer to Día de Muertos, do you ask "where can I mingle with the dead (processes)"? Why at Mozilla's crash reporter tool, you'll find Firefoxen, SeaMonkeys, and Thunderbirds who have crossed over and yet still linger... Last week we updated the plotting library we use for graphs to use Flot and we fixed a handful of Socorro webapp bugs. Flot is a good choice where we have simple graphs to display. Below are two graphs from the crash report listing page: An new crashes by OS bar chart for production builds, ... Read More »
Socorro’s File System Storage
As the scope and depth of the Socorro/Breakpad project has evolved in the last nine months, the most nonvolatile requirement of the project has been a file system as the initial server side storage for submitted crash dumps. The file system gets used as an ad hoc hierarchical database, but it isn't optimized for the type of lookups that we need to do. Unfortunately, the original implementation was without indexing by name leaving us using a search (sort of like using find over NFS with 9 million entries). We patched and then patched the patches as the magnitude ... Read More »
