Major Highlights:

• Kim enabled c3.xlarge slaves for selected b2g tests - bug 1031083
• Catlee added pvtbuilds to list of things that pass through proxxy
• Coop implemented the ability to enable/disable a slave directly from slave health

Completed work (resolution is 'FIXED'):

• Buildduty
• update bm-remote with new mobiletp4.zip file
• Decommission foopy117 and associated tegras
• Legacy vcs sync not able to update legacy mapper quick enough for b2gbuild.py, causing b2g builds calls to mapper to timeout
• Something wrong with b-2008-ix-002x slaves ("LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt")
• Trees closed due to Windows test backlog
• upload a new talos.zip file to get nonlocal source fixes
• Install treeherder-client on internal PyPI
• upload a new mobiletp4.zip pageset to the 3 headed remote talos server (round 2)
• Windows builds pending on inbound for > 2 hours
• Install fxa-python-client on internal PyPI
• Last non-pending Linux 32 opt build on fx-team was 17 hours ago
• General Automation
• Make blobber uploads discoverable
• buildbot changes to run selected b2g tests on c3.xlarge
• [Flame] Turn off FX OS Version 34.0a1 nightly updates until instability is fixed
• Please schedule b2g emulator cppunit tests on Cedar
• Run linux64-br-haz builder on b2g-inbound/mozilla-inbound/fx-team/mozilla-central and try-by-default
• Try is attempting to trigger periodic non-unified builds
• Automatically delete obsolete latest-* builds for calendar
• Allow test machines in AWS to get to github via internet gateway
• Schedule mochitest-plain on linux64-mulet on all branches
• Loan Requests
• Need a WinXP test slave
• Slave loan request for some bld-lion-r5 machines in the try VLAN
• Mozharness
• move ash-mozharness to hg.m.o/build
• AndroidEmulatorTest should use MozbaseMixin
• Other
• linux desktop qt builds for firefox
• Figure out retention of flame tinderbox-builds
• New AWS account, 'mockbuild-repos-upload'
• Platform Support
• prepare the new seamicro machines for production
• Upload new version of xulrunner to tooltool
• Release Automation
• send e-mail to release-drivers when a build is requested through ship it
• With French locale, the sort of the date is broken
• Add a footer to ship-it with a link to source + bugzilla
• Repos and Hooks
• esr31 branch on https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
• Give Treeherder URLs alongside TBPL ones in the hg.mozilla.org push response
• Mercurial extension for monitoring servers
• Tools
• Deploy new vcssync into production with changes from bug 962853
• Add slavename to title for individual slave's slave health page

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

• Balrog: Backend
• create balrog rules to properly support OS blocking and watershed updates on beta (and equivalent test) channel
• support comparison operators for matching version & buildID in rules
• Balrog: Frontend
• balrog's rules page is excessively wide
• Buildduty
• loan t-snow-r4-0099 to jlund
• General Automation
• Modify file structure of Firefox.app to allow for OSX v2 signing
• Thunderbird Linux and Mac MozMill builders are using the system python (fix bustage on Thunderbird Mac MozMill builders)
• Create periodic Linux code coverage builds
• Add dependency management to Runner
• [Tracking] Stand up Code Coverage build and test runs
• Splitting Gij and Gip tests in several chunks
• Don't clobber the source checkout
• repurpose a snow leopard machine for 10.9 mac signing
• Run mock against repos other than puppetagain
• cope with signing server transition in buildbot configs
• stop jobs from hg'n mozharness/tools repos
• android single locale central/aurora nightlies not reporting to balrog
• You can't choose mochitest-N where N>8 for Android specific mochitests
• make sure signing server works on 10.9 and with v2 signatures
• create signing servers for v2 mac signing
• Timeouts during pip install ("Error running install of package, /builds/slave/test/build/venv/bin/pip install --download-cache /builds/...", "Error running install of package, /builds/slave/talos-slave/test/build/venv/bin/pip install --download-cache...")
• AWS region-local caches for https stuff
• Loan Requests
• loan request to investigate bug 1026805
• Slave loan request for a b-2008-sm machine
• Loan an ami-6a395a5a instance to Aaron Klotz
• Slave loan request for a bld-linux64-ec2 vm for pmoore
• Slave loan request for a bld-linux64-ec2 vm
• loan windows 7 hardware talos slave to jmaher and rvitillo@mozilla.com
• Slave loan request for a talos-mtnlion-r5 machine
• Mozharness
• Turn on blobber upload for Gaia Unit Tests
• mozharness DesktopUnittestOutputParser.evaluate_parser() should record a failure if the return code was non-zero
• Other
• figure out what to do with the n900s
• Improve cleanup of tinderbox-builds
• Need read permissions to subnets
• Platform Support
• [mozpool-client] TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
• c3.xlarge instance types are expensive, let's test running those tests on a range of instance types that are cheaper
• Change Android 2.2 builds to be called Android 2.3 builds
• Upload JDK1.7 on builders
• Release Automation
• Figure out how to offer release build to beta users
• make aus3 and aus4 responses consistent
• Figure out Play Store dynamics for Android 2.2/ARMv6 EOL support releases
• Add a standalone process that listens to pulse for release related buildbot messages
• Add REST API entry point to shipit that allows shipit-agent to enter release data into shipit database
• update partner repack scripts to cope with new format after mac signing changes
• Add new table(s) to shipit database
• Repos and Hooks
• Provide advice on SCM system for Public Suffix List
• Tools
• Make Funsize generated partials identical across platforms and environments
• Add timeouts to buildapi's urllib.urlopen() requests
• slaverebooter should attempt reboot if graceful shutdown fails
• Funsize should return correct MIME type
• Aggregate similar exceptions in emails from masters
• Reconfigs should be automatic, and scheduled via a cron job
• Funsize returns errors out and returns an HTTP 500 when requested for a non-existent partial
• permanent location for vcs-sync mapfiles, status json, logs
• Dev services (e.g. hg.mozilla.org and git.mozilla.org) status page(s)

http://jordan-lund.ghost.io/this-week-in-releng-aug-4th-2014/