A couple of weeks ago I came across a reference to Mac Optimized Builds of Firefox. There’s a long tradition of community-based builds of Firefox for the Mac dating back to the PowerPC days. A lot’s changed since those dark days, however. To say that we spend a lot of energy doing performance analysis is [...]
Awhile back, we made a slight organizational change. Alice Nodelman, Mikeal Rogers, Chris Cooper and myself made a lateral shift to join forces with John O’Duinn, Rob Helmer, Ben Hearsum, Nick Thomas and Chris Cooper on the Build & Release team to create a larger, many-limbed crime-fighting robot. (Astute readers will note that Coop is [...]
There’s been some talk around the water cooler recently about some improvements to the build farm. I think this is great and will go a long way towards making the build systems easier to work on with a minimum of localized soreness. First, a picture. This is the way stuff happens now: (edit – X [...]
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 [...]
I mentioned earlier today that I was bringing up a new machine for Great Justice. The sparky new qm-centos5-01 sporting a new Reference Platform VM. Well, it turns out there’s enough of a difference in the base libraries that a number of tests are failing out of the gate. Ted M. noted that 3 of [...]
While the tree is closed for some network storage tests, I took the opportunity to insert a new member into the unit testing family. Please give qm-centos5-01 dep unit test a warm welcome. With his arrival, I hope we can get a newer Cairo installed and working and if we’re really lucky, passing tests. Don’t [...]
The Mac unit test machine, qm-xserve01 is currently set on a rapid-cycling debug mode in an attempt to catch a stack trace on exit. Feel free to take a look through the logs and fix any assertions you see there.
Alternatively, “what’s that smell?” There has been an awful lot of orange on the Windows 2003 and OS X unit test boxes lately. Mostly due to shut-down errors. If you see one of these boxes turn orange after a checkin, but no obvious failures in the suites (pass/fail/todo in mochitest and reftest), it’s likely because [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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