Major highlights:

• Aki has been branching all of the repositories for B2G 1.4, which is nearly complete now.
• I took over B2G update work and am making good progress on switching us over to our production-grade update server.
• Hal and many others battled against git.mozilla.org load issues that caused many tree closures, and won!
• We’ve all been prepping for our meet-up in Portland next week. Come say hi if you’re in town!

Completed work (resolution is ‘FIXED’):

• Balrog: Backend
• decide what b2g/firefoxos update URLs look like
• Buildduty
• Please upload closure_linter-2.3.13.tar.gz to RelEng PyPI
• Upload closure-linter to RelEng pypi
• Please upload python-gflags to RelEng pypi
• General Automation
• generate “FxOS Simulator” builds for B2G
• Add ssltunnel to xre.zip bundle used for b2g tests
• Enlarge the mozilla-inbound jacuzzis, or get rid of them until we can figure out how to calculate the proper size
• b2g_build.py checkout_sources() should attempt |repo sync| more than once & output a TBPL compatible failure message
• Stop spidermonkey jobs from stealing jacuzzi slaves
• delete non-CVS-based git repos
• m-c b2g version should be 2.0, not 1.5
• Schedule Android 4.0 Debug M1,M2,M3,M8 on all trunk trees and let them ride the trains
• Please remove hamachi.zip and the out folder from the ril build for hamachi
• All Tarako builds are userdebug, not user or eng
• Add –browser-arg to B2G desktop mozharness script
• Need Tarako 1.3t FOTA updates for testing purposes
• make recommendation on “quickest & easiest” way to avoid multiple b2g device builds starting at same time
• Disable 32-bit gaia-integration tests
• Enable updates for tarako on 1.3t branch
• Switch b2g-inbound to running Mac tests only on 10.6 instead of only on 10.8
• Plivo package required on the http://pypi.pub.build.mozilla.org mirror
• [Flame]figure out how to create “Flame” builds manually
• Use local storage for builds
• Shut off perma-busted builds on 1.3t
• Updates not properly signed on the nightly-ux branch: Certificate did not match issuer or name.
• add missing pandas/tegras to buildbot configs
• Turn off Metro Browser Chrome tests on inbound, central, cedar, ash, fx-team, etc.
• Write mozharness script for gaia integration tests
• emulator-kk builds crash make half the time (which it describes as “failed to build”)
• firefox-beta-latest and firefox-beta-stub on windows, bouncer staging, are 404s
• Loan Requests
• Slave loan request for dtownsend@mozilla.com
• Slave loan request for dtownsend@mozilla.com
• Slave loan request for a tst-linux64-ec2 vm
• loan w64-ix-slave80 to standard8
• loan osx 10.8 slave to kmoir
• Other
• Switch buildapi away from carrot, or figure out how to make it declare HA queues
• Investigate why more than two third of try builds are recloning the shared repo
• Access S3 endpoints via the internet gateway from EC2 instances
• Release Automation
• Thunderbird Windows L10n repack builds failed with pymake enabled
• ship it throws ISE 500 when trying to submit a release that exists
• Releases
• tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 24.4.0
• Remove sw during beta-release migration for Firefox 29
• do a staging release of Firefox and Fennec 30.0b1
• Releases: Custom Builds
• Version bumps for FF 29 builds
• Yandex partner repack changes for Fx 29 release
• Tools
• Web UI for self-serve should allow retriggering pending jobs
• graphbuilder for Task Cluster
• Merge sbruno’s tooltool into build-tooltool
• the +1 button on self serve should increase the job priority not decrease it

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

• Balrog: Backend
• Support new attributes for update.xml in Balrog
• Requesting data of non-existent release yields a 500 error
• add support for “isOSUpdate” attribute
• tracebacks on versions like “3.6.3plugin1''
• Buildduty
• Schedule Gaia linter tests on all trunk branches
• General Automation
• Make blobber uploads discoverable
• Please update the backup-flame blobs for the flame as there were changes to what is extracted
• branch gaia l10n repos for 1.4
• b2g 1.4 branch support
• Do debug B2G desktop builds
• Add a TURN server for running mochitest automation under a VPN
• emergency change to b2g midnight PT start times
• set-up initial balrog rules for b2g updates
• disable flame update uploading to update.boot2gecko.org
• Show SM(Hf) builds on mozilla-aurora, mozilla-beta, and mozilla-release
• [Meta] Some “Android 4.0 debug” tests fail
• [Meta] Fix + unhide broken testsuites or else turn them off to save capacity
• Make linter error filenames shorter
• fx desktop builds in mozharness
• switch b2g builds to use aus4.mozilla.org as their update server
• Do nightly builds with profiling disabled
• Schedule M, R, G, and Gu tests OOP on b2g desktop builds on cedar
• Monitor aws_stop_idle.py hungs
• Move Android 2.3 reftests to ix slaves (ash only)
• balrog submitter shouldn’t forcefully capitalize product names
• point [xxx] repository at new bm-remote webserver cluster to ensure parity in talos numbers
• upload flame gecko/gaia mars to public ftp
• Make it possible to run gaia try jobs *without* doing a build
• We should stop using setup.sh in tooltool
• Configure the MLS key for pvt builds
• Add support for webapprt-test-chrome test jobs & enable them per push on Cedar
• Intermittent Android 2.3 install step hang
• make it possible to post b2g mar info to balrog
• Loan Requests
• loan linux64 hardware slave to jmaher
• Loan :sfink a linux64 bld-centos6-hp-005
• Other
• Option to rebuild N times with self-serve
• Platform Support
• signing win64 builds is busted
• Release Automation
• Bump thunderbird tag disk space requirements
• Figure out how to offer release build to beta users
• cache MAR + installer downloads in update verify
• release repacks needs to submit data to balrog
• Releases
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox and Fennec 29.0
• Tracking bug for 28-april-2014 migration work
• Repos and Hooks
• Add a repository hook to enforce new review requirements for changing .webidl files
• Tools
• update relman scripts based on notes from first usage
• tool to compare different sources of slave and master data
• Add an option to trychooser to select Talos profiling options
• tracker to retire legacy vcs2vcs

http://hearsum.ca/blog/this-week-in-mozilla-releng-april-25th-2014/