EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2012-02-06

The Overview

• bugzilla
  • [dkl] released upstream bugzilla (security release)
    • dkl celebrated a successful release by getting wrist broken
  • [glob] gmail threading investigation
  • [glob] lots of pulse/push work

• bughunter
  • [bc+jeads] preparation continues for presentation/training sessions later this week
  • [jeads] several improvements to the UI regarding url resubmissions

• marionette
  • [mdas+jgriffin] marionette-gaia tests now running green against b2g (http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/autolog/?tree=b2g&source=autolog)
  • [mdas+jgriffin] completed content management support via finishing switch_to_window support
  • [mdas+jgriffin] marionette hanging bug fixed (bug 721260)
  • [jgriffin] investigating using jenkins for automation instead of the current system of gitbuilder/autolog
  • [mdas+jgriffin] documentation and code cleanup in preparation for security review (13th feb)

• fennec ARMv6 (bug 697205)
  • [ted] tracked down linker problem
  • [ted] bug 723939, closers to having a working build!

• signal from noise
  • [jmaher] moving first round of changes from side by side to production
  • [jmaher] still experimenting with the best ways to run or figure out reliability
  • [jmaher] mocking up new UI to make graph server easier to use
  • [jmaher] discussions with metrics regarding what to do with the data (statistically speaking)
  • [jeads] started building new webservice/model layer to enable sharing of model methods and sql across web service and server side scripts

• graphserver
  • [jhammel+jeads] discussions regarding end-to-end architecture
  • [jhammel] working on several bugs gradually moving towards schema improvements and statistics package backing

• mobile automation
  • [jmaher] Robocop headaches might be a thing of the past, waiting on releng to finish staging and turn on
  • [jmaher] Developers writing robocop tests!
  • [jmaher] Robocop/Talos tests will be moving into staging in the next week
  • [jmaher] Panda Boards are moving to the next stage
  • [ctalbert and mcote] got mobile startup automation running

• Addon compatible by default automation (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/Compatibile_By_Default_Automation):
  • [wlach] Testing and helping to debug addons by default compatible stuff with Henrik Skupin and ctalbert

• Eideticker (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Eideticker):
  • [wlach] Helping to set up Eideticker machine in MV with ctalbert (unfortunately there seems to be some issues with the capture card).
  • [wlach] More work on automation to get an "Eideticker dashboard" going (WIP)
    • will run tests against the latest Fennec nightlies/auroras/betas and follow any regressions/improvements
    • will probably be a static web site hosted somewhere when done

• Ateam Services
  • [bc] hoping for movement on the Ateam development vlan in order to start creation of the experimental and development versions of our webhead, logparser and es instances

• jetperf harness (http://k0s.org/mozilla/hg/jetperf)
  • [jhammel] in a beta state (runs, seems to do what it is told)
  • [jhammel] started discussions regarding integration with buildbot and graphserver

• peptest
  • [mcote] Fixes to mozbase to support proxying; discovered and fixed some Python-2.4 incompatibilities

Upcoming Events

All times Pacific Time, click on link to find your timezone

• Platform Meeting (all platform engineers) Tuesday at 11AM, Conf # 8605.
• Mobile Test Automation Wednesday at 10:30AM #304
• Marionette/Eideticker Meeting Thursday at 10AM Conf # 304
• Signal from Noise Thursday at 11AM #343

Round Table

• Next week's MC?
• Any volunteers who want to break Firefox for a Talos experiment? (wlach to take it on!)

Misc

• this saturday (11th feb) is glob's mozilla cake day
• should i change the bug on bmo?
• the genius of reddit