Major highlights:

• Kim started evaluating options for hosted Mac hardware.
• Aki started standing up builds for “Flame”, the first Firefox reference device.
• Rail long standing manual parts of our Firefox release process.
• Massimo revamped our builder prioritization to make it easier to prioritize l10n builds properly, and make prioritization more dynamically adjustable.

Completed work (resolution is ‘FIXED’):

• Balrog: Backend
• No update served while aurora update frozen
• Buildduty
• Windows 8 tests failing across all branches
• EC2 test spot instances with 15GB disk running low on (or completely out of) available disk when checking out gaia-1_4, gaia-1_2 and gaia-central under /builds/hg-shared/integration
• General Automation
• Android clobber clobbers things such that ant can’t be found
• Change birch config and add jacuzzis
• Add ssltunnel to xre.zip bundle used for b2g tests
• Schedule Android 4.0 Debug M4,M5,M6,M7,J1,J2,J3 (only) on all trunk trees and make them ride the trains
• mozharness’ unit.sh should list ‘mock’ as a dependency
• Schedule Android 2.3 mochitest,xpcshell,robocop tests (only) on all trunk trees and make them ride the trains
• mozharness should treat warnings containing “SyntaxError” keywords as warnings
• decommission (releng side) aws buildbot masters migrated to scl3
• Add configs for debug B2G Mac OS X desktop builds & enable on mozilla-central and mozilla-aurora
• Please remove hamachi.zip and the out folder from the ril build for hamachi
• Make –enable-debug gecko device builds for B2G
• Mozharness install step should catch failures due to insufficient disk space
• Rename cppunittest to cppunit in mobile_config.py
• AWS manager can’t reach buildbot masters
• [Flame]figure out how to create “Flame” builds manually
• Please schedule desktop jit-tests on all trunk trees and make them ride the trains
• stop importing WithProperties in buildbot-configs
• Add configs for debug B2G linux64 desktop builds
• enable_nightly is in birch twice
• Schedule desktop tests only on Holly
• Please build b2g and gaia parts for the Tarako build based on bug 956631 output
• Add tooltool support to Windows builds
• Increase free space requirement for linux debug builds
• purge_builds needs to know about different partitions
• Loan Requests
• please loan jmaher an ec2 machine equal to a linux32-spot instance
• Other
• Stage MozillaBuild 1.9.0
• releng jenkins is down
• Upgrade ASan Clang in Q1
• ReadTheDocs not regenerating slaveapi documentation
• Stage MozillaBuild 1.8.0
• Use pymake by default on Windows
• Use mozmake for b2g win32 builds
• Use mozmake for some windows builds
• Platform Support
• Switch 32-bits linux builds to x86-64 mock environments
• do initial planning on “chunks” of machines to move.
• Releng Config/Automation support of staging run of scl1->scl3 move
• Release Automation
• xr_postrelease failed for 29.0b4
• Generate 1.3T Tarako builds twice a day (9am China time – UTC+8)
• Update firefox-latest, firefox-stub, firefox-latest-euballot bouncer aliases as a part of post-release builder (and same for beta)
• run xulrunner post-release task automatically after Firefox post-release
• Releases
• Bad link on ftp.mozilla.org to xulrunner builds
• Show Australis tour page upon update for en-US on Beta
• Releases: Custom Builds
• Version bumps for FF 28 builds
• Repos and Hooks
• Create hg mirror of gaia 1.3t branch
• Tools
• Can’t assimilate loaner instance on aws-manager1.srv.releng.scl3.mozilla.com
• Add jittest to trychooser
• update beta2release to current working version
• Display Most recent 10 slaveapi calls, not oldest 10
• self-serve agents eat exceptions, causing stalls
• Remove cppunittest for Android as option in TryChooser
• host instance: ‘None’ stopped for 1348 hours.

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

• Buildduty
• Please add t-mavericks-r5-002 and t-mavericks-r5-003 to graphserver
• General Automation
• Make blobber uploads discoverable
• Port TryBuildFactory to Mozharness for fx desktop builds
• branch gaia l10n repos
• Do debug B2G desktop builds
• m-c b2g version should be 2.0, not 1.5
• disable confusing double runs of mochitest-bc for linux debug
• Mozharness test configs should live in-tree
• Bengali in 1.3t builds
• fx desktop builds in mozharness
• generate “flatfish” builds for B2G
• Fully decommission no longer used buildbot masters
• prioritize l10n nightlies below everything, regardless of branch
• revamp b2g upload configs
• Run additional hidden 3 debug mochitest-browser-chrome chunks and b2g reftests
• Cloning of hg.mozilla.org/build/tools and hg.mozilla.org/integration/gaia-central often times out with “command timed out: 1200 seconds without output, attempting to kill”, “command timed out: 1800 seconds without output, attempting to kill”
• Enable all mozharness desktop build linux variants on Cedar
• Get e10s tests running on inbound, central, and try
• 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.
• Don’t require puppet or DNS to launch new instances
• Decommission the ionmonkey tree
• Split up mochitest-bc on desktop into ~30minute chunks
• Run jit-tests from test package
• Loan Requests
• Slave loan request for a VS2013 build machine
• Loan t-w864-ix-003 to jrmuizel
• Slave loan request for a tst-linux64-ec2 machine
• Slave loan request for a w64-ix machine
• Request Loan Machine for tst-linux64-spot
• Other
• [tracking] infrastructure improvements
• s/m1.large/m3.medium/
• Platform Support
• Upgrade Valgrind on build machines to 3.9.0
• [tracker] Move away from the rev3 minis
• Run unittests/talos on OS X 10.9 Mavericks
• clean up mobile_config.py
• Release Automation
• Thunderbird Windows L10n repack builds failed with pymake enabled
• cache MAR + installer downloads in update verify
• release repacks needs to submit data to balrog
• Releases
• Add SeaMonkey 2.26 Beta 1 to bouncer
• Repos and Hooks
• find RFO for git.m.o OOM condition in bug 985864
• Tools
• update relman scripts based on notes from first usage
• vcs-sync needs to populate mapper db once it’s live
• Update SlaveAPI sphynx docs to reflect recent changes
• Add an option to trychooser to select Talos profiling options
• Using slaveapi to reboot a machine on the slave health page results in “list index out of range” under ‘output’
• tool to compare different sources of slave and master data
• slaveapi’s shutdown_buildslave action doesn’t cope well with a machine that isn’t connected to buildbot
• Add Windows support to aws_stop_idle.py
• db-based mapper on web cluster
• legacy vcs-sync process doesn’t auto retry when it should
• SlaveAPI should be more precise on request TS
• legacy vcs-sync doesn’t AUTOFIX git hangs

http://hearsum.ca/blog/this-week-in-mozilla-releng-april-4th-2014/