Auto-tools/Meetings/2013-07-08

Notices, Highlights, Roundtable

Mozbase workweek

• Two weeks ago, jgriffin, ahal, jhammel, wlach, ctalbert, chmanchester, mihneahdb, and gps gathered in SF to roadmap / plan the next steps for mozbase
• We now have a vision statement / elevator pitch for mozbase: "A mozilla-centered standard library to help us (and you!) build things faster"
• Moving away from emphasis in Q3 from "refactor all harnesses to mozbase" to "make it easier to bring up automation for new platforms using mozbase"
  • So for example, this means that refactoring the fennec automation in m-c to use mozbase is less important. So we're not going to do that in Q3. But work to finish B2G refactoring to use mozrunner continues to be a priority, as the work there will form an example that will hopefully make bringing up things like Mochitest on new platforms easier.
• Other mozbase work in Q3: Bugfixing / mirroring improvements (jhammel), unit tests (ffledging), documentation (wlach), structured logging (chmanchester).
• Lots more notes here (thanks ahal): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/Mozbase/Automation-Refactor/Meetings/2013-07-02

Goals

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Goals/2013Q3

Summit Planning Assembly

• Brief summary of Summit Planning Assembly by mcote

Work Week

• Start thinking about format and what you want to get out of it
• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Ateam-workweek-august2013-agenda

Deep Dives

Tools (2nd Monday)

Tinderboxpushlog

• [edmorley] New things in production: https://bugzil.la/875323,886823
• [edmorley] Patches:
  • bug 886838 - mcMerge's getFlags.php should set |Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *|
  • bug 883218 - Stop submitting starred bug comments to the metrics ES instance now we've transitioned off of it
  • Misc: https://bugzil.la/886823

War on Orange

• OrangeFactor on trunk for last 7 days: 4.14

Performance (3rd Monday)

Eideticker

• [wlach] - Android profiling runs re-enabled for Galaxy Nexus to help diagnose startup perf issues
• [wlach] - Had a meeting FirefoxOS perf team lead. Seems very interested in work-to-date (http://eideticker.mozilla.org/b2g).
• [wlach] - Working on ability to do responsiveness type tests for B2G and Android -- requires synchronized clocks, etc. See: bug 888102

General Framework Support (4th Monday)

In-tree Automation/Harnesses

• [edmorley] Patch to prevent leakstats from failing the build job on OS X if the log file was incomplete (bug 887234).

Process (4th Monday)

Sheriffing & Trees

• Gaia commit permissions have been given to {edmorley, KWierso, Tomcat} (RyanVM already had them) so we're now able to back out gaia commits upstream, if they caused breakage when the in-tree manifest was updated by the gaia auto-committer bot.
• [edmorley] A vpn_sheriff LDAP group has been created with members {edmorley, KWierso, philor, RyanvM, Tomcat}, which grants use of the RelEng slavealloc dashboard & access to the buildbot masters using the new unified MozillaVPN (see bug 886078, bug 887033 & bug 887450). This allows sheriffs to view the live stdout of running jobs (see bookmarklet in bug 809908 for making this quick from TBPL), control runaway buildslaves & perform more specific job retriggering.
• [edmorley] Patch to fix the mercurial commit message hook for gaia.json auto-commits (bug 887184).

Treestatus

• [edmorley] New things in production: https://bugzil.la/882124

Holidays and Trips

• [edmorley] Was on PTO the last week, updates above are from the week before.