EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2011-01-31

The Boulders

• Supporting Releng with Android Automation Rollout - ctalbert, bmoss, jmaher
  • TP4 poor man automation coming along, should have something running by the end of the day
  • Landed finkle's improvements to pageloader/manifests
  • Trying to get releng to update systems with mfinkles changes

• War on Orange - jgriffin, mcote, jmaher, harth
  • Updated server side scripts to use the pulse packages
  • Pulse library will be checked in to a repo at hg.mozilla/org/automation
  • ES conversion getting closer, made a lot of progress converting the UI last week, was interrupted by sudden talos firefight.
  • Jgriffin will document the brasstacks setup and configuration for ES this week

• Bugzilla Improvements - dkl
  • Still working on splinter, need help with YUI questions
  • Should have something to look at this week
  • Continuing to help get other bugs with the bmo customizations fixed for the bugzilla 4.0 upgrade.

• E10S Automation support - ctalbert
  • Ted tried out special powers, found that it worked for what he did

• User Responsiveness Measurement - ted, ahal
  • No progress yet, finishing up some existing work
  • Ahal picking up Alice's crete extension to drive the browser interaction side of the work this week

• Abstraction Interface for Buildbot - ted, jhammel
  • No progress yet, finishing up some existing work

The Gravel

• Firebug Test Automation - ahal
  • Meeting with releng tomorrow, not much to do until then
  • Last week managed to make the tests a bit more stable, but still a few issues probably related to the window size.
  • Helping the Firebug team look into taking over the test-bot

• Bug Hunter - bc
  • Upgraded to couch 1.0.2, unfortunately it's not solving our problems
  • Have development and server systems set up with django/mysql, working on changing code to use that system this week

• Mozmill 2.0/1.5.x - harth, jhammel, ahal, ctalbert
  • working on getting 1.5.2 on m-c: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618924
  • going to redo 2.0 to unify Mozmill + MozmillRestart

• Fennec Profile Tool - mcote
  • mcote's blog finally added to planet!
  • Will write up a post about the tool
  • Tested with new versions of devicemanager/agent, found a bug, fixed by bmoss--works fine now
  • Also start working on proper packaging (pypi)

• Profile Manager - jgriffin
  • Spent last week fixing user-reported bugs, almost have them all resolved
  • Reaching out to the SUMO folks this week to talk about how they want to go about updating their documentation.

• Manifest for the manifest-less - jmaher, jhammel
  • wrote how to use ManifestDestiny to update tests on m-c: http://k0s.org/mozilla/manifestparser-HOWTO.txt
  • made ManifestDestiny a single-file installable package: http://k0s.org/portfolio/deployment.html#single-file-python-package

• Bug-stats Websites - mcote
  • Administration/permissions done for the bugzilla dashboard (https://brasstacks.mozilla.com/bugzilla-dashboard/admin.html)
  • This week will write up a blog post about this too

• Helping JS team with JIT crashes - ted
  • Did some work with dvander on a tool to better categorize JIT crashes, going to have metrics get a day's worth of minidumps to run it on bug 627111
  • Landed bug 599301 to fix getting JIT code memory in minidumps on older windows versions (Windows XP)

Backburner

• Addon Testing service - anode

Roundtable

• Looking for a replacement to record and replay (replacing VMWare solution).
  • If anyone knows a good alternative to investigate let us know.

The Misc

• Today's Misc is full of helpful tips for Joel since he moved from North Cuba to the South:
• Tip 1
• Cultural introduction ;)
• Not sure if coming from North Cuba makes him a yankee, but these are also fun tips

The Pulverized

• Productize Pulse
• Profile Manager v1
• Breakpad for Android
• Crossweave
• Grafx Bot
• Firebug Test Support
• Mozmill 1.4.2 aka 1.5 Released
• Bugzilla Review & REST API Improvements (2010 Q2)
• Implement AddOns Performance prototype system
• Initial Landing of E10s Enabled Mochitest
• Websockets Test Infrastructure Support