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General

• Attendees:
  • TBD
• This meeting:
  • Chair: Dave Hunt
  • Notes: TBD

Last Weeks Action Items

• [CARRY OVER] Clint: Document the VMWare ESX system that we need
• [CARRY OVER] Clint: Talk to IT to get back access to the vSphere center - bug 772831
• [CARRY OVER] Henrik: Fully investigate and fix the infinite loop (refcount) issue - bug 761564
• [DONE] Dave & Henrik: Schedule weekly office hours
  • Office hours will be on Thursday at 12:00pm UTC
• [DONE] Henrik: Will send email to mailing list regarding office hours
• [DONE] Henrik: Add triage links to meeting template
• [DONE] Dave: Add details of TechMeetup to highlights section
• [DONE] Dave: Investigate running against tinderbox/inbound from Mozmill CI

Highlights

• [henrik] Automation development meeting has been rescheduled
• [dave] Mozilla drops usage of Selenium RC
• Current CI solution has been replaced by ESX cluster last week; Now we have to finalize the Windows and Linux VMs and move l10n tests to the cluster. Once done we will setup the staging server
• MemChaser 0.4 released last weekend
• Mozmill 1.5.18 released (shutdown tests still broken due to profile in use message, but there is only a single one which we probably want to disable until Mozmill 2.0)

Q3 2012 Goals Overview

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Automation_Development#Prioritized_Projects

Issues / Blockers

• bug 774609 - Turn on all Mac Minis for Mozmill-CI testing
• bug 761564 - Memory leaks in Mozmill Python code which keeps references around and never completely releases the Mozmill object
• bug 772831 - [HELPDESK] - ESX machine hosting vc1.qa.mtv1.mozilla.com seems to be too unstable
• bug 774892 - Unable to type in Firefox if it's started with focusmanager.testmode enabled on Linux
• bug 702605 - Allow interaction events to be injected into the Event Queue
• bug 767348 - Memory consumption shows an ascending trend on Nightly/Win 6.1 x64
• bug 764823 - Memory spike discovered by endurance tests on Nightly Linux and Mac between June 12 and 13
• bug 773632 - High results on mozmill endurance test on Mac 10.7.4_x64 since Jul 5

Roundtable

• Making scope explicit on automation development
• Shall we separate out issues and blockers in the above section for better visibility?
• Any better name as "office hours" for our upcoming weekly Q&A session?
• Mozilla.com download buttons testing

Presentation / Demo

• [ctalbert] MochiTests

Triage

• mozmill-2.0?

Personal Status

For the personal status please check the weekly status updates:

• 120813 - 120817

Meeting Notes

The meeting notes for this meeting can be read in the following etherpad:

• http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/automation-developer-meeting-20120827

Action items

• [CARRY OVER] Clint: Talk to IT to get back access to the vSphere center - bug 772831
• [CARRY OVER] Henrik: Fully investigate and fix the infinite loop (refcount) issue - bug 761564
• [DONE] Dave: Respond to Clint's email about ESX nodes for Web QA
• [DONE] Clint: Send email to list about team scope
• [ON TRACK] All: Respond to team scope email
• [DONE] Dave: Explore MDN possibilities with regards to offline content generation
• [DONE] Henrik: Split issues/blockers in wiki meeting template
• [DONE] Henrik: Send out email re office hours -> we name us "Ask an Expert"
• [NEW] Dave: Send email to auto-tools explaining the mozilla.com download buttons problem, asking for thoughts / suggestions