The Beginning From Now
Hello World! Oh boy, where to begin with this sort of thing? How do first posts work? Let's start with why I am writing a blog. My name is Jordan Lund and I hope to share three things I've learnt over...
View ArticleFirst Assignment
Before I begin to dive in to why it's awesome working on the Mozilla Releng team, what it is we do, or even how we do it, I want to discuss a bit about my role and what I've been up to. Mozharness All...
View ArticleAdding --list-config-files to Mozharness
In First Assignment, I touched on how Mozharness can have multiple configs. You can specify on any script say: ./scripts/some_script --cfg path/to/config1 --cfg path/to/config2 [etc..] The way this...
View ArticleThis Week In Releng - July 28th, 2014
Major Highlights: armv6 builds and tests are disabled ec2 instances avail of a proxy server that stores local cache of ftp downloadables runner, service that runs startup tasks so we don't need to...
View ArticleThis Week In Releng - Aug 4th, 2014
Major Highlights: Kim enabled c3.xlarge slaves for selected b2g tests - bug 1031083 Catlee added pvtbuilds to list of things that pass through proxxy Coop implemented the ability to enable/disable a...
View ArticleThis week in Releng - Aug 11th 2014
Completed work (resolution is 'FIXED'): Buildduty update bm-remote with new mobile_tp4.zip file Intermittent "Unable to remove C:\slave\test\build!" Linux64 non-unified builds aren't starting on...
View ArticleThis Week In Releng - Sept 1st, 2014
Major Highlights: new page for hg status and issues: https://wiki.mozilla.org/DeveloperServices/hg improve capacity by running debug tests based off every 2 builds instead of on each one for on...
View ArticleThis Week In Releng - Sept 7th, 2014
Major Highlights big time saving in releases thanks to: Bug 807289 - Use hardlinks when pushing to mirrors to speed it up Completed work (resolution is 'FIXED'): Balrog: Backend force=1 isn't passed on...
View ArticleThis Week In Releng - Sept 21st, 2014
Major Highlights: shipped 10 products in less than one day Completed work (resolution is 'FIXED'): Balrog: Backend Add interpolation for schema v2 url params (eg openURL) Fix up balrog-server.py for...
View ArticleThis week in Releng - Oct 5th, 2014
Major highlights: kmoir ended our official tegra support. All code referencing them has been deleted in bug 1016453 kmoir is preparing material teaching a releng class next week...
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Mozharness is moving into the forest
Since its beginnings, Mozharness has been living in its own world (repo). That's about to change. Next quarter we are going to be moving it in-tree. what's Mozharness? it's a configuration driven...
View ArticleMozharness now lives in Gecko
What's changed? continuous-integration and release jobs that use Mozharness will now get Mozharness from the Gecko repo that the job is running against. How? Whether the job is a build (requires a full...
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being productive when distributed teams get together
I'm a Mozilla Release Engineer. Which means I am a strong advocate for remote teams. Our team is very distributed and I believe we are successful at it too. Funnily enough, I think a big part of the...
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