EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2011-08-22

RoundTable

• Welcome jeads! I think mdas gets to keep her "least time spent as the newbie on the team", but wlach is a close second!
• Ctalbert mostly WFH this week, but should be around -- dr. appts monday pm and friday am.

Goals

• Work with release engineering to reduce overall end-to-end time from push to test result to an average of 2 hours.
• Ensure all harnesses and tests are E10S ready
• Improve performance testing by finalizing user-activated addons performance system, xperf-enabled performance testing, and automating a user responsiveness performance test.

Automation

• Go Faster (P1) - jgriffin, ted, mdas, bc, ctalbert, wlach
  • potentially running mochitests that never fail less often - jgriffin
  • Go Faster Dashboards - wlach
    • Now updated with live data at http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/gofaster/#
    • 'Is this build faster tool?' webui up (using jgriffin's backend)
    • Licensing of highcharts.js makes dashboard software non-free :(
  • mochitest profiling suite - mdas
  • Faster unpack/clobber times - wlach
    • No real wins there :( {bug|

• Mobile Support (P1) - jmaher, bmoss, ctalbert
  • Tegra Pool Automation - jhammel: no progress

• Bug Hunter (P1) - bc
  • Bug Hunter UI - mcote, bc
    • Auth UI done along with some refactoring and cleaning. Should be ready for jeads to jump in!

• Mozmill 2.0/1.5.x (P1) - jhammel, harth, ctalbert
  • bug 659488 is turning into a time-pit; trying to figure out a good resolution there

• Crossweave 2 (TPS) - jgriffin
  • Landing patch that enables Mozmill tests in TPS today
  • Working on follow-up patch which exposes some Sync API's to those Mozmill tests

Performance

• Talos/User Responsiveness (P1) - anode, ted

• Talos/Addon Testing Service (P1) - anode

• Talos/Xperf (P2) - jmaher

• SpeedTests (P2) - mcote
  • Working on some client changes.

• Eideticker (P2) - mcote
  • Dev box should be arriving here within a week or so.

Web Tools

• War on Orange/Auto-log (P1) - jgriffin, mcote
  • Some oranges have been hidden in TBPL for quite a while due to various bugs; need to develop OF view which allows these to be hunted down easily.
  • More work on test failure correlations.

• Bugzilla Improvements (P1) - dkl, glob
  • tell-us-more : development work ongoing, requirements shifting
  • there are now exactly zero stray moco blessed accounts on BMO (was: 64)
  • inline history is coming to BMO this week
  • last week saw a lot of work around the new rapid release version, exposing some limitations in bugzilla that need to be worked around
  • ongoing work with porting over to 4.2

• Regression Hunter (P1) - harth

• DXR Automation/Support {P2} - mdas
  • No progress; there is no DXR contact and I'm experiencing build errors.

• Personal Bugzilla Dashboard (P2) - harth

Tool Infrastructure

• SpecialPowers (P1) - jmaher, ted

• MozBase (P2) - jmaher, jhammel, ted

• Web UX Platform (P2) - mcote, harth
  • wlach has been making a few improvements.

• flyingtanks - mcote
  • No updates.