After the huge push last week to realize our first beta release using build promotion, there’s not a whole lot of new work to report on this week. We continue to polish the build promotion process in the face of a busier-than-normal week in terms of operational work.

Release:

Firefox 46.0 beta 1 was finally released to world last week, and the ninth rebuild was, in fact, the charm. As the first release attempted using the new build promotion process, this is a huge milestone for Mozilla releases.

As proof we’re getting better, Firefox 46.0 beta 2 was released this week using the same build promotion process and only required three build iterations. Progress!

This was also a week for dot releases, with security releases in the pipe for Firefox 45 and our extended support release (ESR) versions.

Kim just stepped into the releaseduty rotation for the Firefox 46 cycle. Kudos to Mihai for fixing up the releaseduty docs during his rotation so the process is easy to step into! We released Firefox 45.0esr, Firefox 46.0b1, Thunderbird 38.7.0 and Firefox 38.7.0esr with several other releases in the pipeline. See the notes for details:

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases:Release_Post_Mortem:2016-03-16
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases:Release_Post_Mortem:2016-03-23

Operational:

There is new capacity in AWS for our Linux64 and Emulator 64 jobs thanks to Vlad and Kim’s work in bug 1252248.

Alin and Amy moved 10 WinXP machines to the Windows 8 pool to reduce pending counts on that platform. (bug 1255812)

Kim removed all the code used to run our panda infrastructure from our repos in bug 1186617. Amy is in the process of decommissioning the associated hardware in bug 1189476.

Speaking of Amy, she received a much-deserved promotion this week. To quote from Lawrence’s announcement email:

“I’m excited to promote Amy Rich into the newly created position of Head of Operations [for Platform Operations]. This new role, which reports directly to me, expands the purview of her existing systems ops team, and includes assisting me with more management leadership responsibility.

“Amy’s unique mix of skills make her a great fit for this role. She has a considerable systems engineering background, and she and her team have been responsible for greatly improving our release infrastructure over the past five years. As a people manager, her commitment to both individuals and the big picture engenders loyalty, respect, and admiration. She is inquisitive and reflective, bringing strategic perspective to decision-making processes such as setting the relative priority between TaskCluster migration and Windows 7 in AWS. As a leader, she has recently stepped up to shepherd projects aimed at creating a more cohesive Platform Operations team, and she is also assisting with Mozilla’s company-wide Diversity & Inclusion strategy.

“Amy’s team will focus on systems automation, lifecycle, and operations support. This involves taking on systems ops responsibilities for Engineering Productivity (VCS, MozReview, MXR/DXR, Bugzilla, and Treeherder) in addition to those of Release Engineering. The long-term vision for this team is that they will support the systems ops needs for all of Platform Operations.

Please join me in congratulating Amy on her new role!”

Indeed! Congratulations, Amy!

See you next week!

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