Q3 planning is in full swing. Chief priorities continue to be the migration to TaskCluster (TC) from buildbot, and release process improvements.

Modernize infrastructure:

Aki finished porting configman to python3 (merged!). https://github.com/mozilla/configman/pull/163

Windows try builds were enabled on TC Windows 2012 worker types in staging (allizom) (win32/win64, opt/debug). If all goes well, this will propagate to production in the coming days. This is the first set on non-Linux tasks we’ve had running reliably in TC, which is obviously a huge step in our migration away from buildbot.

Improve Release Pipeline:

Aki wrote dephash to pin python requirements to versions+hashes: http://escapewindow.dreamwidth.org/247093.html https://github.com/escapewindow/dephash https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dephash

Aki got signtool working with py3 (reproducibly this time), using requests. https://github.com/escapewindow/signtool https://pypi.python.org/pypi/signtool

We implemented a short cache for Balrog rules, which greatly reduced load on the database. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1111032

Kim stood up beta builds with addon signing preferences disabled. This allows addon developers to test their addons prior to signing on release-equivalent builds. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135781

Improve CI Pipeline:

Francis disabled valgrind buildbot builds. Turning stuff off in buildbot #feelsgoodman. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278611

Kim enabled Android x86 builds on trunk running in TC. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174206

See you next week!

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