Hello and Welcome
After a year of me slugging away at buildbot-related stuff, I’ve finally got some serious help. Chris Cooper (aka Coop, not to be confused with The Coop) has been digging into the buildbot setups and machinery running the unittest boxes and is helping out with the performance stuff. He’s been able to make sense of my haphazard documentation and run an install on the currently sluggish qm-xserve01, so a big thank you for that.
While I’m on the subject, we’ve gone through a number of attempts to repair qm-xserve01. The most recent and most drastic measure was a full reinstall of the OS and build tools. The machine’s still running slowly and we’re looking at getting the hardware looked at. In the meantime, please use bm-xserve07 on the firefox page. Another big thank you to Nick Thomas (cf) and John O’Duinn for donating that. I swear we’ll give it back Real Soon Now!
Last but definitely not least, Ben Hearsum has signed-on as a permanent resident and is rocking the buildbot talos stuff. He’s currently embroiled in the setup and installation of the talos linux and mac ports as well as bringing up some new Windows hardware. He’s also recently put some finishing touches on the buildbot try server which should help take some of the orangeness off of the main unittest machines. A heart-felt welcome and thank you goes out to him too.
As proof of all the awesomeness that’s going on, talos is about to begin reporting on the main Firefox tree for your amusement. Expect a few small fires along the way.
So, what am I going to do now that I have all this excellent help? Am I going to take a bunch of long vacations and begin a series of complex, time-consuming hobbies? Oh, dear me, no… I’ll be helping Bob Clary get his JavaScript testing frameworks automated under (you guessed it) buildbot. This is a long-overdue task that’s been taunting me from my to-do list since I started here.
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