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RelEng & RelOps Weekly highlights - March 4, 2016

>> Monday, March 07, 2016

It was a busy week with many releases in flight, as well as preparation for running beta 1 with release promotion next week.  We also are in the process of adding more capacity to certain test platform pools to lower wait times given all the new e10s tests that have been enabled.

Improve Release Pipeline:

  • Nick ran a staging release for 46.0b1 to check for issues before the merge, preventing some bustage for Fennec and ensuring we can fall back to the old system if any unexpected issues show up with release promotion
  • Varun improved Balrog’s detection of certain types of bad data.
  • Ben finished most of the work involved with preparing Balrog to move to CloudOps infrastructure, including automatically building Docker images.
  • We’re hoping to do our first beta with the new release build promotion pipeline next week for 47.0b1. Stay tuned!
Everyone gets a release promotion!  Source: http://i.imgur.com/WMmqSDI.jpg

Improve CI Pipeline:
  • Dustin deployed a new version of the TaskCluster tools/login system with much improved UI for handling signing in and out and editing clients and roles.  He also simplified the existing roles, with the result that the set of roles now fits on one screen, and is entirely composed of human-readable names.  All of this works toward two important goals: building a sign-in system that is useful and usable by all mozillians; and configuring the access-control system to give everyone their appropriate permissions and no more.

Release:

The releases calendar is getting busier as we get closer to the end of the cycle. Many releases were shipped or are still in-flight:
  • Firefox 45.0b10
  • Fennec 45.0b11
  • Fennec 45.0 (in-progress)
  • Firefox 45.0 (in-progress) - we shipped the RC to the beta channel
  • Firefox 45.0esr (in-progress)
  • Firefox 38.7.0esr (in-progress)
As always, you can find more specific release details in our post-mortem minutes:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases:Release_Post_Mortem:2016-03-02 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases:Release_Post_Mortem:2016-03-09

Operational:
  • Vlad, Alin and Amy reallocated 28 Windows test machines to the w7 pool to help with backlog and e10s testing.
  • Jake deployed new OpenSSL packages to protect our infrastructure from Drown Attack and various other recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Until next time!

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RelEng & RelOps Weekly highlights - February 26, 2016

>> Monday, February 29, 2016

It was a busy week for release engineering as several team members travelled to the Vancouver office to sprint on the release promotion project. The goal of the release promotion project is to promote continuous integration builds to release channels, allowing us to ship releases much more quickly.



Improve Release Pipeline:
  • Chris, Jordan, Callek (remotely), Kim, Mihai and Rail had a sprint on Release Promotion. We made so much progress on this project that we decided to use the new process for Firefox 46.0b1. https://bugzil.la/1118794 So many green jobs!


Improve CI Pipeline:

Release:
  • Ben, Mihai, Nick, Rail and Callek Shipped Firefox 45.0b6, Firefox 45.0b7, Firefox 45.0b9, Fennec 45.0b6, Thunderbird 45.0b2 

Operational:
  • Alin landed changes to run mochitest-push-e10s tests on Windows 7 https://bugzil.la/1248729. This is another step toward completing the enabling of e10s tests. 

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This week in Mozilla Releng - July 4, 2014

>> Friday, July 04, 2014

This is a special double issue of this week in releng. I was so busy in the last week that I didn't get a chance to post this last week.  Despite the fireworks for Canada Day and Independence Day,  Mozilla release engineering managed to close some bugs. 

Major highlights:

  • Armen, although he works on Ateam now, made blobber uploads discoverable and blogged about it.  Blobber is a server and client side set of tools that allow Releng's test infrastructure to upload files without requiring to deploy ssh keys on them. 
  • Callek and Coop, who served on buildduty during the past two weeks worked to address capacity issues with our test and build infrastructure.  We hit a record of 88,000 jobs yesterday which led to high pending counts.
  • Kim is trying to address the backlog of Android 2.3 test jobs  by moving more test jobs to AWS from our inhouse hardware now that Geoff on the Ateam has found a suitable image.
  • Rail switched jacuzzi EBS from magnetic to SSD.  Jacuzzis are similar pools of build machines  and switching their EBS storage from magnetic to SSD in AWS will improve build times.
 Completed work (resolution is 'FIXED'):
In progress work (unresolved and not assigned to nobody):

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This week in Mozilla Releng - June 20, 2014

>> Friday, June 20, 2014

Ben is away for the next few Fridays, so I'll be covering this blog post for the next couple of weeks.

Major highlights:


Completed work (resolution is 'FIXED'):
In progress work (unresolved and not assigned to nobody):

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