You! Can help make the Try Server better.

Once or twice a month a bug is filed on the try server. I see all of these go by and typically say something like "this would be cool, I don't have time to do it". Someone mentioned to me that they were going to blog about a specific try server to try and get some traction on it and I thought, "Why didn't I think of that?". So, the rest of this post is just a list of try server bugs that are relatively simple try server bugs that shouldn't be too difficult to fix.

Bug 391364 - Tryserver should have the option of building specified platforms

Requires changes to: CGI script/UI, master.cfg/Buildbot steps

Bug 411735 - Client side form validation

Requires changes to: CGI script/UI

Bug 411735 - Support building from an alternate revision/branch/tag in a mercurial based try server build

Requires changes to: CGI script/UI, master.cfg/Buildbot steps

Bug 430942 - If bug # given, automatically add comment to bugzilla when try build finishes

Requires new Buildbot Status plugin

Bug 431375 - Try server needs to be able to handle non-Firefox builds

Requires changes to: CGI script/UI, master.cfg/Buildbot steps

Bug 431400 - Try server should support downloading bugzilla attachments as well as receiving uploaded patches

Requires changes to: CGI script/UI

I am happy to give guidance to and assist anyone who wants to work on any of these bugs. The CGI/UI can be found here: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/webtools/buildbot-try, the buildbot master.cfg is here: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/tools/buildbot-configs/tryserver/, and classes supporting it are here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/tools/buildbotcustom/tryserver/.