Try Server Suggestions and Feature Requests

upload script: allow multiple patches
upload script: use reference to bugzilla attachments instead of uploading a patch
- Direct integration into bugzilla? "Click here to test patch"?
upload script: allow users to reference 1..N bug numbers as part of the build description
upload script: allow users to check an "email me when this build is ready" box
try script: email users who checked the "email me when this build is ready" box
upload script: ability to see default .mozconfig
allow patches compressed with bzip2 or gzip
copy build logs (and maybe input patches) to output download directory
give developers an option to make the try-server "rebase and push to mozilla-central" if the patch is green on try-server
- or starred as "effectively green"
Display the last green hg id somewhere (this is bug 570859).
Ability to just build installer/zip/dmg/tar without uploading symbols, running tests, etc.
Compare talos numbers relative to mozilla-central numbers in proximity hg DAG-wise, see http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2010/06/07/trying-talos-on-node-js/ for a proof of concept.

Preventing you from using tryserver effectively for your needs

(bz) Being able to actually get results in sane amounts of time. It's now been over 24 hours since I pushed a patch, and I have yet to see a single mac test result, Linux debug test result, 32-bit Linux optimized test result, anything at all on Win7. The Win2k3 optimized build died with an infrastructure error... In other words, a bunch of machine time was wasted, and I still can't get the data I wanted.
(roc) Understanding tryserver performance results is hard. The tbpl comparator is somewhat helpful, but only if you can identify a changeset on the same page of results that would be a good baseline for comparison, and that is error-prone and often impossible. You also don't get a fine-grained breakdown of test results. I generally end up screen-scraping the old-style Tinderbox with a script I wrote. The process is even slower and harder when your test results appear over several days, if at all (see above).