Like last week, this is a very rough approximation of RelEng related work that completed this week. Because this is the last week before vacation, we haven’t landed much in the past couple of days, and some regularly scheduled release work was postphoned.

• Emergency responses/bustage fixes:
• buildapi-web2 RabbitMQ queue is high
• TryChooser is showing “N/A” for all queues
• AWS builds are falling way behind
• Integration Trees closed, high number of pending linux compile jobs
• Regularly scheduled work:
• Please set the software version and OS version of Mozilla Central to 1.4.0.0-prerelease
• Need automatic hsts preload list updates on esr24
• Migrate mozilla-beta and comm-beta during 09-dec-2013 merge duty
• Create custom updates for TB ESR users to 24.2.0
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox and Fennec 26.0
• tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 27.0b1
• tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 24.2.0
• General automation changes:
• Migrate 5 win64-rev1 machines to win64-rev2
• disable all builds and tests on v1.2F branch
• Deploy release-runner ssh key to release-runner instances
• kill firefox-release-stub bouncer entry
• Allow |-p linux64-valgrind| to be specified in trychooser
• b2g 1.2f branch is using the wrong gaia
• Disable MacOSX & Linux 32-bit builds/tests on mozilla-b2g18 and mozilla-b2g18-v1.1.0hd
• switch buildapi from old to new rabbit instances
• Check for content length when downloading files and retry if not the same
• Setup in-house buildbot masters for mobile testers
• Regular database cleanup
• Turn off the B2G builds marked as REMOVE on https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Asasaki:B2GBuilds — proceed turning off Unagi per :stephend
• Enable mochitest-metro tests on Aurora for Windows 8
• Create branch uplift patches and test win64-rev2 release builds in staging
• run pretty name tests for the package-tests target
• AWS spot instances should always automatically retrigger when disconnected
• Build/test platform changes:
• Update sixgill RPMs again
• Other:
• slaveapi shouldn’t assume that a slave has a master
• change v1.2f to allow commits from level1 users
• don’t try to ssh reboot a slave that isn’t pingable
• slave_health “time since last job” column doesn’t sort correctly
• In partner facing http://git.mozilla.org/?p=releases/gecko.git delete obsolete “aurora” branch
• For locales no longer developing on m-c, generate custom updates to migrate users of those locales from m-c to mozilla-aurora

http://hearsum.ca/blog/this-week-in-mozilla-releng-december-20th-2013/