This was a quieter week than most. With everybody flying home from Portland on Friday/Saturday, it took some time for most of us to get back into the swing of things.

Major highlights:

• Armen put together a great index of material from our Portland work week. There’s lots of slides and recorded presentantions, check them out!
• Aki made it possible to test Gaia changes on the Try server without doing an entire B2G build. His blog has all the details.
• Kim continues to investigate providers for running Mac tests “in the cloud”, and is running some initial tests on their hardware.
• I’m continuing to make steady progress on switching B2G updates to aus4.mozilla.org.

Completed work (resolution is ‘FIXED’):

• Buildduty
• Replication lag on buildbot2.db and self-serve timing out
• General Automation
• Make it possible to run gaia try jobs *without* doing a build
• [Tarako] 1.3T builds are configured with incorrect update server URL
• Add mapping for crashreporter-symbols.zip for nightly builds on ftp.mozilla.org
• add zwarich and glennw to bors reviewers for servo
• Configure the MLS key for pvt builds
• Make sure all Aurora users are updated to Firefox 31.0a2 latest on Monday May 5th, 2014
• Don’t do pretty names packaging on all builds
• balrog submitter shouldn’t forcefully capitalize product names
• point [xxx] repository at new bm-remote webserver cluster to ensure parity in talos numbers
• B2G builds failing with | gpg: Can’t check signature: No public key | error: could not verify the tag ‘v1.12.4' | fatal: repo init failed; run without –quiet to see why
• Loan Requests
• please let me access bld-lion-r5-043 with buildbot not running (specific machine loan request)
• Need a slave for bug 818968
• request for a Windows 7 test slave
• Other
• Option to rebuild N times with self-serve
• Platform Support
• Upgrade Windows 8 Nvidia drivers to 335.23
• Release Automation
• Thunderbird Windows L10n repack builds failed with pymake enabled
• upload a new talos.zip to pick up all the fixes
• second updates run of 29.0.1 failed to submit to balrog
• Releases
• Create funnelcake builds for Australis onboarding experience testing
• Repos and Hooks
• The prevent_webidl_changes hook must ignore backouts
• The order of reviewers matters for the webidl commit hook
• Add more project branches to the push_printurls hook
• remove jhopkins and mihai from releng whitelist
• Create mirror hook for mozmill-tests repository for Github
• mirror github relengapi to mozilla repos
• Add a repository hook to enforce new review requirements for changing .webidl files
• Skip testTipDirRenameShouldFail on non-case sensitive filesystems
• Tools
• high pending for ubuntu64-vm try test jobs on Apr 22 morning PT

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

• Buildduty
• Reconfigs should be automatic, and scheduled via a cron job
• loan glandium and mshal a Linux ec2 instance
• bld-centos6-hp-* slaves are running out of disk space
• General Automation
• nuke lockfiles in .repo dir in b2g_build.py
• Run Android 2.3 tests against armv6 builds, on Ash only
• make mozharness test scripts easier to run standalone
• Provide B2G Emulator builds for Darwin x86
• Do debug B2G desktop builds
• make it possible to post b2g mar info to balrog
• Manage repo checkout directly from b2g_build.py
• docstrings for all of mozharness.base.*
• [tracker] run Android 2.3 test jobs on EC2
• fx desktop builds in mozharness
• Move Firefox Desktop repacks to use mozharness
• switch b2g builds to use aus4.mozilla.org as their update server
• Run Gaia unit oop and reftest sanity oop for b2g desktop on trunk
• Don’t do Thunderbird builds on comm-* branches for non-Thunderbird pushes
• Reduce log retention on buildbot masters from 200 twistd.log files to 100 twistd.log files
• Limit coalescing
• upload flame gecko/gaia mars to public ftp
• Point gaia-try mozharness to jhford’s mozharness
• Starts building Mulet target
• Don’t enable sccache on PGO builds
• Don’t require puppet or DNS to launch new instances
• Schedule Android 2.3 crashtests, js-reftests, plain reftests, and m-gl on all trunk trees and make them ride the trains
• Add support for webapprt-test-chrome test jobs & enable them per push on Cedar
• Configure Elm for specific builds
• Loan Requests
• Need a bld-lion-r5 to test build times with SSD
• Please loan tst-linux64- instance to dminor
• loan linux64 hardware slave to :jib
• Other
• Switch in house try builds from ceph to reverse-proxied S3
• [tracking] infrastructure improvements
• Platform Support
• Cleanup temporary files on boot
• evaluate mac cloud options
• mh and device changes for relocated panda racks
• consume talos.json for talos tests on pandas
• slave pre-flight tasks
• Ensure all AWS buildbot masters are in inventory
• Release Automation
• cache MAR + installer downloads in update verify
• Releases
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox and Fennec 30.0
• Trim rsync modules (May 2014 OMG we still have to do this edition)
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox and Fennec 29.0.1
• Tools
• Blobber upload files not served with correct content type
• Create a Comprehensive Slave Loan tool
• Initial (v0) Deploy of Slaveloan tool
• Transplant tool (Hg to Hg)
• tracker to retire legacy vcs2vcs

http://hearsum.ca/blog/this-week-in-mozilla-releng-may-9th-2014/