Archive for April, 2007
ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS April 26th, 2007
The new box is all set up and chugging along happily. WINNT 5.2 qm-win2k3-01 dep unit test landed yesterday around 12:38 in a sea of burning fire. The new machine is now reporting to the Firefox tree on Tinderbox.
But what does this mean to you, Dear Developer? I’m glad you asked. The new machine is now cycling Windows builds and test runs in about 20 minutes — approximately 3 times faster than its Windows XP VM counterpart, WINNT 5.1 qm-winxp01 dep unit test. We’ll leave them both running for awhile before eventually moving qm-winxp01 to lighter duty elsewhere.
Also, the build environment on qm-win2k3-01 (can I just call it Robby?) is updated with the latest version of mozilla-build and contains Zero Cygwin. This should keep this machine more compatible with future changes to the build system on Windows and cut down on excess kruft.
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New ‘Bots Coming April 25th, 2007
I’m just putting the finishing touches on a new machine that will eventually replace the qm-winxp01 unit test vm running on the Firefox Tinderbox Tree. The new machine will be called qm-win2k3-01 dep unit test and will have some beefier hardware behind it. Hopefully reducing cycle times and providing a better platform for some of the other testing frameworks we’ll be adding in the near future.
I’ll try to keep the other machines running as much as possible during the update, but there may be a few hiccups. I’ll be monitoring #developers on irc.mozilla.org just in case something goes Horribly Horribly Wrong.
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