Release Engineering Buildduty Meeting

• Date: 2013-10-29
• Time: 10:00am EDT
• Room: ReleaseEngineering Vidyo room
• Meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/Buildduty/Meetings:2013-10-29

Status of buildduty period

https://releng.etherpad.mozilla.org/buildduty

Bugs filed

Previous action items

• coop:
  • update nagios buildduty docs
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering:Buildduty:Nagios
  • follow-up with IT re: JSON formatting of nagios output
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=884307
  • add existing buildduty queries to wiki
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/Buildduty#Daily
  • file bug to audit releng services for IP collision
    • followed up directly with Amy
• jhopkins: talk to buildduty about whether to take bugs

https://bugzil.la/930021 and https://bugzil.la/930216 into the buildduty queue

• • should we have a separate monitoring component created?
  • "other" component has many bugs in it; bugs can become forgotten

Agenda

• (jhopkins) win64-rev2 update
• (jhopkins) win64-rev1 post-imaging
  • bm83 doing rev2 builds
    • only one in scl3 pool in slavealloc, rev1 machines sitting idle == wait times
• (armenzg) we had redis issues for 15 mins
• (coop) SPoF as it pertains to buildduty
  • owners for redis and buildapi issues
  • likely victims candidates: written by catlee, armen to talk to catlee
• (armenzg) notfication of reconfigs?
  • reduce risky changes in a reconfig in the afternoon
• (bhearsum) slaveapi update
• (jhopkins) ideas for teamweek
  • improve slavealloc?
    • discussion of future of slavealloc vs slaveapi
  • slaveapi hack session: AWS integration, ...

List of current projects

• https://github.com/bhearsum/slaveapi/blob/master/TODO
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=914764
• in-house capacity: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867593

Action items

• (jhopkins) to update description for Platform Support to mention "monitoring"
• (coop) follow-up with Callek about state of in-house Windows build masters
• (armenzg) talk with catlee about redis