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ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS

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.

qm-win2k3-01 is so *dreamy*.

So, this will only test Gecko 1.9 and not 1.8? You will have a Gecko 1.8 test box as well?

Currently all the unit test boxes are working on Trunk builds only. There’s been talk about putting in support for 1.8 branch but it hasn’t been a priority. If you’ve got some VMs kicking around, we might be able to put them to use doing that. Or possibly repurposing qm-winxp01…

[...] Mornings in Eastern Standard Time are quiet times around Mozilla, usually. So I took this as an opportunity to reboot qm-win2k3-01, everyone’s favorite lovable robot character. [...]

[...] be – xserve06 is newer and sporting more recent processors and I believe a faster bus. See also qm-win2k3-01, our first physical box running Windows unittests. It’s been there since April 26th of last [...]