This week in Mozilla RelEng – January 24th, 2014

Completed work (resolution is 'FIXED'):

• Balrog: Backend
• can't add locale information to a release under certain conditions
• Buildduty
• Disable hardware slaves on try
• Deploy Android 2.3 AVD definitions to Ash for testing
• General Automation
• B2G emulator builds broken on Try
• Schedule Android 4.2 x86 Opt set S4 (only) on all trunk trees and make them ride the trains
• prune old buildbot schedulers
• mozconfig check is failing for win64
• Remove locking on buildapi caching backends
• No Android reftests running on Aurora/Beta
• b2g wasabi build for 1.3
• Make ASan try_by_default
• Allow AWS build slaves to access s3 buckets
• Allow persisting MIME types for blob uploads (and not serving as content-disposition: attachment)
• Allow test slaves to save and upload files somewhere, even from try
• Add 'latest' directory for mozilla-central TBPL b2g builds
• Buildapi's tests don't pass
• memcached requires keys be bytestrings
• Intermittent B2G "make[3]: *** [configure] Error 1" due to "configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!"
• Schedule b2g desktop Gu on all branches for OSX
• Enable 32-bit Windows builds on Date, test those builds on tst-w64-ec2-XXXX
• Make gecko and gaia archives from device builds publicly available
• Loan Requests
• Slave loan request for [:hub]
• Need access to a Linux x64 Debug buildbot
• loan linux slave to jmaher
• Slave loan request for a t-w864-ix machine
• Other
• linux desktop qt builds for firefox
• Platform Support
• Add talos-linux64-ix machines that were purchased for the Android x86 project
• release-automation
• Update text for av-vendor email
• Releases
• Version bumps for Yahoo! partner builds for Firefox 27
• Create custom updates for TB ESR users to 24.2.0
• Modify AOL Repack Configuration
• Yandex partner repack changes for Fx 27 release
• Repos and Hooks
• Determine how to support non-gaia try code on "gaia try"
• Create an HG hook to block commits that touch Australis files without "Australis" in the commit message
• Tools
• add non-fastforward detection & prevention for b2g repos
• tracker for all occurrences of hg socket hangs on vcs-sync system
• [graph server] Do not send regression alerts for known-bad data
• slaveapi's reboot action shouldn't create a bug for a slave unless it was unable to reboot it
• Remove win64 tests from TryChooser
• Use a different AMQP backend than amqplib
• Don't set 'target' window for bugzilla links in slave health
• repos should be accessed via https, even hg.m.o
• provide way to filter job logs by repository
• slaveapi should be able to file more types of IT bugs
• Turn off test coalescing on Date branch
• investigate why sentry isn't working for aus4-dev.allizom.org
• trychooser's -e and -f emails about finished jobs only work for MoCo employees who use their MoCo address
• upload minidump *.dmp files to well known location
• self-serve agent is a SPOF

In progress work (unresolved and not assigned to nobody):

• Balrog: Backend
• balrog should notify when a release is added (or modified?) by a human
• Balrog: Frontend
• rules.html has race condition
• Buildduty
• Re-purpose mw32-ix-slave##, linux-ix-slave##, linux64-ix-slave##, bld-linux64-ix-05[1-3], mw32-ix-ref and linux-ix-ref as b-2008-ix-#### (rev2) machines
• All trees closed due to timeouts as usw2 slaves download or clone
• General Automation
• Need automatic hsts preload list updates on any branches based on Gecko 18 and later
• mozilla-central should contain a pointer to the revision of all external B2G repos, not just gaia
• Intermittent "BaseException: Failed to connect to SUT Agent and retrieve the device root."
• Do debug B2G desktop builds
• Run reftests on B2G Desktop builds
• Get existing metrofx talos tests running on release/project branches
• Publish archives of Linux mock/chroot Linux build environments
• write mozconfigs for non-unified builds
• Rooting analysis mozconfig should be in the tree
• [Meta] Some "Android 4.0 debug" tests fail
• Please schedule Android 4 reftests on all trunk trees and make them ride the trains
• generate "flatfish" builds for B2G
• Compression for blobber
• Android verify.py requests to mozpool should retry on some request responses
• Start generating an additional build daily for Buri at 8am in Taipei's timezone
• AWS spot instances should always automatically retrigger when disconnected (2)
• Please add non-unified builds to mozilla-central
• Schedule gaia-ui-tests on cedar against emulator builds
• Tracking bug for 3-feb-2014 migration work
• Prepare infra to handle spot instances
• Land initial iteration of mozharness for web-platform-tests
• Schedule b2g desktop reftest-sanity on all trunk branches
• submit release builds to balrog automatically
• Switch update server for FxOS from OTA to FOTA by using the solution seen in bug 935059
• Split up mochitest-bc on desktop into ~30minute chunks
• [Tracking bug] automation support for B2G v1.3.0
• Build the Gecko SDK from Firefox, rather than XULRunner
• Loan Requests
• Loan felipe an AWS unit test machine
• AWS slave loan request for graydon
• Loan jgilbert a Linux M1/R test slave
• Slave loan request for a t-xp32-ix machine
• Loan :sfink a linux64 bld-centos6-hp-005
• Please assign a Linux32 test machine to me
• Slave loan request for a t-w732-ix machine
• Please loan t-w864-ix- instance to dminor
• Slave loan request for a bld-lion-r5 machine
• Other
• Upgrade ASan Clang in Q1
• s/m1.medium/m3.medium/
• Platform Support
• Upgrade Valgrind on build machines to 3.9.0
• Please test new Virtual Audio Cable package on each Windows test machine
• s/m3.xlarge/c3.xlarge/
• New Windows build slaves fail in NSS on branches below trunk
• Install Flash for Robocop tests
• install sox command to linux and linux64 hardware machines
• release-automation
• retry.py didn't actually kill process tree for a timed-out pushsnip
• Create SSL products in bouncer as part of release automation
• Figure out how to offer release build to beta users
• Releases
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox and Fennec 28.0
• do a staging release of Firefox and Fennec 29.0b1
• tracking bug for build and release of Firefox 24.4.0 ESR
• tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 24.4.0
• Partner repack changes for web.de, gmx, and mail.com (Firefox 27)
• do a staging release of Firefox and Fennec 28.0b1
• Repos and Hooks
• Mercurial server should encourage best practices
• Add a hook to detect changesets with wrong file metadata
• Please move blobber repos to the mozilla github org
• Tools
• switch slave rebooter to use production slaveapi
• [Tracking bug] - Assisted/Auto Landing from Bugzilla to tip of $branch
• New tooltool deployment
• tracker to retire legacy vcs2vcs
• permanent location for vcs-sync mapfiles, status json, logs
• cut over build/* repos to the new vcs-sync system
• Create report to allow determine if we have enough machine to handle the load (not from developer's POV)
• legacy vcs-sync process doesn't auto retry when it should
• db-based mapper on web cluster
• Create a 'reftest' alias for 'reftest-1' and 'reftest-2' linux-android unittest suites
• put log length on a new line

The code that generates this report is available at https://github.com/bhearsum/this-week-in-bugs