This week in Mozilla RelEng – February 21th, 2014

Ben Hearsum

Highlights:

Rail spent some time optimizing spot instance bidding, which helps lower our AWS bill.
Massimo improved one of our major AWS usage reports, which will also help us be more efficient with our usage.
Ahal got us uploading qemu.logs to blobber, making it easier to debug some types of failures.
Mike got his patch for "hg purge" landed, which has improved try build times!
Callek moved all of our in-house test machines onto in-house masters, which takes additional load off of our AWS VPN link (which reduces the chance of tree closures due to it failing).
Dan continued his work on moving MozBase tests out of the build jobs, which improves build and test turnaround time.
John started figuring out how to make our signing servers support 64-bit Windows binaries, which is one thing (out of many) that we need to do before shipping 64-bit Windows builds.
Catlee continued work on Jacuzzi implementation, making good progress on some of the Buildbot implementation that we need.
Nick made additional progress on fixing our release automation to support shipping Release builds to Beta users for extra testing before we ship for real.