Major highlights:

• kmoir ended our official tegra support. All code referencing them has been deleted in bug 1016453
• kmoir is preparing material teaching a releng class next week http://polymorse.polymtl.ca/plow/
• bhearsum added signing support for firefox 64bit windows builds in bug 711210

Completed work (resolution is 'FIXED'):

• Buildduty
• twistd logs not being sent because "Message size exceeds fixed limit"
• Windows 8 test jobs pending on Try for coming up to 3 hours
• Windows Builds fail with configure: error: To build the installer you must have the latest MozillaBuild or Unicode NSIS version .46 or greater in your path.
• General Automation
• Modify file structure of Firefox.app to allow for OSX v2 signing
• support signing 64-bit windows signing in buildbot-configs
• Please schedule jit-tests on Try
• L10N uplift script should properly push to empty repos
• Split Gij and Gip tests into several chunks and run on Cedar
• Sign Windows x64 MARs
• [Flame] Create Kitkat based pvtbuilds for 2.0 and 2.1
• Skip every nth job for debug tests on mozilla-inbound
• Turn off flame JB builds for B2G 2.0 and newer
• disable l10n repacks on oak
• android single locale nightly builds need to retry balrog submissions
• some buildrequests get claimed but never started
• windows opt build against mach and mozharness failing at package-test step in ash
• create mozilla-b2g34_v2_1 branch
• b2g_bumper.py should not fail if gecko_pull_url has trailing slash
• Work around unreachable symbolpush.m.o
• create signing format that uses osslsigncode for 64-bit windows signing
• Finished try jobs don't appear on TBPL
• Loan Requests
• Slave loan request for a tst-linux64-ec2 vm
• loan t-snow-r4-0099 to jlund
• Requesting a loaner machine bld-linux64 to diagnose bug 1053703
• Mozharness
• If download-and-extract is not run then we don't call _read_tree_config and can't run-tests
• Unzip on developer's Mac do not like test.zip files produced in releng infra
• Move some android and b2g manifest configs out of mozharness and into the tree
• Platform Support
• sign 64-bit windows builds
• Upgrade Valgrind on build machines to 3.10.0
• Install vs2013 Update 3 across all our win64 build machines
• [tracker] Stop testing on tegras
• Upload JDK1.7 on builders
• Release Automation
• Increase space requirement for TB Linux64 release build
• partner repack scripts need to resign builds with OS X signature
• Releases
• Add SeaMonkey 2.30 Beta 2 to bouncer
• Remove sw during beta-release migration for Firefox 33, keeping az
• Add SeaMonkey 2.30 Beta 1 to bouncer
• On 32.0.3, offered nonexistant update
• Releases: Custom Builds
• Firefox 33 beta builds are not picking up partner-repacks changes

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

• Balrog: Backend
• missing extended attributes when serving balrog release builds
• Create a tool to submit modifications to blobs
• deal with bad data better
• create balrog rules to properly support OS blocking and watershed updates on release (and equivalent test) channels
• Balrog: Frontend
• Make diffs more useful by sorting first
• Buildduty
• Add fabric action to reset the timestamp used by buildbot-master exception log reporting
• [tracker] windows build infrastructure issues
• buildbot-master73.srv.releng.usw2.mozilla.com is DOWN
• General Automation
• Releng work for producing two ARMv7 APKs to target different API ranges
• For Win32 get a set of plain mochitests running on holly with the content sandbox enabled
• Tracking bug for 13-oct-2014 migration work
• [tracker] Eliminate "outlier hosts"
• FlatFish: Integrate boot.img and kernel compilation into the build system
• Integrate transplant tool into relengapi
• Increase the number of chunks for B2G debug mochitests
• Add Windows/OSX nightlies for Mulet
• add nightly jobs for new splitapk android builders
• Split webgl tests into a separate mochitest-gl suite on desktop
• turn on talos for win8.x64 on the 'Date' tree
• Schedule Linux64 CodeCoverage builds on Ash
• Clean up b2gdesktop builders
• mozharness try
• Start to drop "mozilla" objdir from Thunderbird builds
• Skip more unittests on capacity-starved platforms
• disable uploading to update.boot2gecko.org for mozilla-central/mozilla-aurora/1.4
• stop jobs from hg'n mozharness/tools repos
• Enable split Gij and Gip suites on repos other than cedar
• Loan Requests
• Please loan jgriffin an ubuntu64 AWS VM with g2.2xlarge instance type
• Need a Windows 8 test machine
• Slave loan request for a tst-linux64-ec2 vm
• Android 2.3 loaner request for jchen
• Loan :sfink a linux64 b-linux64-hp-0024
• Slave loan request for a t-w864-ix machine
• R5 request for testing puppet on OSX 10.10 yosemite
• Mozharness
• Mozharness' structuredlog.py should get run status directly from mozlog's status handler
• Add {robocop,jsreftest} suite_definitions to in-tree configurations
• Use tooltool.py to download cached artefacts for android builds
• Code coverage test jobs should set GCOV_PREFIX, package .gcda files and upload them to blobber
• Add metrics (via statsd) to mozharness
• Issues with Gaia classes
• Move Firefox Desktop repacks to use mozharness
• Move the spidermonkey automation build scripts into the tree
• Include Android panda run_file_names in in-tree mozharness configs
• Other
• Clear github-sync nodes off seamicro
• Platform Support
• create HVM ami for Ubuntu64
• Install vs2013 Update 3, NSIS 3.0a2, and Mercurial 2.9.2 on 5 machines for testing
• Upgrade Mercurial clients to 3.1.2
• Release Automation
• pushing release builds to beta doesn't work in balrog
• Update channels for single locale Beta and Release builds of Firefox for Android 30 (and beyond)
• partner repacks need to retry fetching from hg
• Update transparently the product details when pushing to the mirror
• Add sendchange schedulers for update_shipping and postrelease builders so that shipit can trigger them
• release runner support to sendchange for update_shipping and postrelease builders
• Releases
• Consider serving updates for 3.x and lower as minor updates to avoid displaying the billboard.
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox 31.2.0 ESR
• tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 31.2.0
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox and Fennec 33.0
• Show whatnsew page to ESR24 users when they're offered ESR 31.2.0
• do a staging release of Firefox and Fennec 34.0b1
• Logic for when to display /whatsnew in Firefox 33
• Sign and dev deploy the Firefox update hotfix (v20140527.01.6)
• Tools
• vcs sync should only push tags/heads that have changed since last successful push
• Create mechanism to create a buildbot environment on a local machine
• phase2: Transplant tool (Hg to Hg) for developers (reviewboard/try/etc -> inbound)
• Initial (v0) Deploy of Slaveloan tool
• test_clobberer.py has failing tests
• Add Windows support to aws_stop_idle.py
• two new instances like vcssync{1,2}, puppetized
• Rewrite Clobberer Service

http://jordan-lund.ghost.io/this-week-in-releng-oct-5th-2014/