Major Highlights:

• Massimo finished converting the remainder of our AWS Buildbot masters to cheaper & faster instance types.
• Aki is making steady progress on Try support for Gaia changes.
• Armen turned off the last jobs that were run on our rev 3 machines, which finally lets us retire them.
• Aki and Catlee got initial builds for the FirefoxOS “Flame” reference device going.
• Pete made more progress on scripts to do fully automated buildbot master reconfigs, which should help us land changes to them more quickly and efficiently.

Completed work (resolution is ‘FIXED’):

• Balrog: Backend
• balrog not substituting %locale% in detailsUrl
• Buildduty
• tons of unauthorized slaves on panda masters
• General Automation
• Split up test suites that take longer than N minutes to run
• remove machines that don’t exist from buildbot-configs
• investigate increase in certificate attribute check failures since bug 803531
• generate “FxOS Simulator” builds for B2G
• Spot instances don’t have security group set properly
• Rev4 machines have Puppet disabled which can lose their name and burn talos jobs because they end up with a name like client-builders-mac-mini-10
• Add mbrubeck to bors reviewers for servo
• turn off some b2g builds
• [Flame]figure out how to create “Flame” builds manually
• Create retry() context manager
• Bump MAX_BROKER_REFS to 4096
• Turn off Fedora b2g reftests on trunk branches
• Provide native js shell to tarako b2g builds
• Split up mochitest-bc on desktop into ~30minute chunks
• Bengali in 1.3t builds
• Loan Requests
• please loan jmaher an ec2 machine equal to a linux32-spot instance
• Slave loan request for Matt Woodrow
• borrow a linux ix multinode host to test CentOS-6.5
• Need a win32 slave to debug Lightning pymake issues
• Slave loan request for a w64-ix machine
• Slave loan request for a t-w864-ix machine
• Slave loan request for a bld-lion-r5 machine
• Other
• Figure where to put sccache config for ceph
• s/m1.large/m3.medium/
• Platform Support
• [tracker] Move away from the rev3 minis
• Experiment with other instance types for Android 2.3 jobs
• Release Automation
• No Tarako 1.3 build available to smoketest
• staging release runner instructions don’t work with new dev-master1/ssh key management
• bouncer submitter doesn’t work in staging
• ccache enabled in nightly mozconfigs but not beta or release
• kill release downloader
• Need an update watershed in 29.0bN for beta channel
• Releases
• do a staging release of Firefox and Fennec 30.0b1
• Repos and Hooks
• Request for a new git repository: “fuzz-tools” (public)
• Mirror bmo to github
• Mirror upstream Bugzilla to github
• Tools
• Make mozharness+buildbot configuration changes necessary for new test suite mochitest-dt
• Add mochitest-dt to Trychooser
• Slaveapi should support mobile devices for reboots
• Slaveclass warning on slave health
• Cron /home/buildduty/buildfaster/bin/buildfaster_report.sh
• buildbot wrangler should notice failed reconfigs
• Create instructions for Windows on EC2

In progress work (unresolved and not assigned to nobody):

• Balrog: Frontend
• balrog’s rules page is excessively wide
• Buildduty
• Reconfigs should be automatic, and scheduled via a cron job
• General Automation
• Make it possible to run gaia try jobs *without* doing a build
• Updates not properly signed on the nightly-ux branch: Certificate did not match issuer or name.
• Schedule Android 4.0 Debug M1,M2,M3,M8 on all trunk trees and let them ride the trains
• branch gaia l10n repos
• Move Android 2.3 reftests to ix slaves (ash only)
• revamp b2g upload configs
• Add ssltunnel to xre.zip bundle used for b2g tests
• Do debug B2G desktop builds
• Run unittests on Win64 builds
• Need Tarako 1.3t FOTA updates for testing purposes
• Add the build step or else process name to buildbot’s generic command timed out failure strings
• Fully decommission no longer used buildbot masters
• point [xxx] repository at new bm-remote webserver cluster to ensure parity in talos numbers
• Intermittent Android 2.3 install step hang
• Configure the MLS key for pvt builds
• Loan Requests
• Loan t-w864-ix-003 to jrmuizel
• Slave loan request for a tst-linux64-ec2 vm
• Slave loan request for dtownsend@mozilla.com
• Need a slave for bug 818968
• Slave loan request for dtownsend@mozilla.com
• Loan t-w732-ix-003, t-w732-ix-004 to Q
• Loan mshal an aws builder
• Loan :sfink a linux64 bld-centos6-hp-005
• Request Loan Machine for tst-linux64-spot
• Other
• Deprecate tinderbox-builds/old directories for desktop & mobile
• Platform Support
• Deploy NSIS 3.0a2 or MozillaBuild 1.9 (includes NSIS 3.0a2) to buildslaves
• signing win64 builds is busted
• Cleanup temporary files on boot
• evaluate mac cloud options
• Create a Windows-native alternate to msys rm.exe to avoid common problems deleting files
• Release Automation
• Thunderbird Windows L10n repack builds failed with pymake enabled
• Figure out how to offer release build to beta users
• cache MAR + installer downloads in update verify
• Releases
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox and Fennec 30.0
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox 24.6.0 ESR
• Add SeaMonkey 2.26 Beta 2 to bouncer
• tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 24.6.0
• do a staging release of Firefox and Fennec 31.0b1
• Tools
• cut over gecko.git to the new vcs-sync system
• cut over l10n repos to the new vcs-sync system
• Blobber upload files not served with correct content type
• update relman scripts based on notes from first usage
• tool to compare different sources of slave and master data
• Add Windows support to aws_stop_idle.py
• Create a Comprehensive Slave Loan tool

http://hearsum.ca/blog/this-week-in-mozilla-releng-april-17th-2014/