EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2012-05-14

The Highlights

• For Mozmill tests we are nearly down to ZERO failures! (Mozmill test results)

The Overview

Mozbase

• [dburns] MozProfile 0.3.1 was released last week.
• [jhammel] jetperf.py landed in mozharness; working on getting it in buildbot

Mozmill

• [henrik] Mozmill 1.5.12 released (blog post) and silently *uppss* dropped support for Firefox 3.6 (bug 754225)
• [henrik] Automation Development team and Q2 goals (blog post)
• [henrik] Changes in the management of Mozmill tests (blog post)
• [henrik] For Mozmill tests we are nearly down to ZERO failures! (Mozmill test results)
• [henrik] Large memory leak in Firefox on Jenkins web page caused a downtime of Mozmill CI on Sunday. To blame is bug 751557.
• [dave] Mozmill CI will soon pre-fetch remote repositories to circumvent downtimes of hg.mozilla.org. Also support for email notifications will land soon.

Bugzilla

• [glob] added summaries of blocker bugs to bugmail
• [glob] tell-us-more security review started, discussion and work surrounding that
• [glob] fix to encrypt bugmail which contain private comments
• [glob] tracking-flag work
• [glob] bmo administrative work

Peptest

• [mcote] - Updated the packaged MozMill extension to get the compartments-per-global fix.
• [mcote] - Updated mozharness to run 10 iterations of test suite per push.

Sheriffing

• [edmorley] Lost a day due to a public holiday.
• [edmorley] Sheriffing the trees (starring, filing new oranges, backouts, tree closures, merging inbound/fx-team/m-c, marking bugs post merges).
• [edmorley] Continuing sheriff policy discussions with Ehsan/Matt/Marco/Philor regarding backouts and whether patch authors should be emailed outside of bugzilla in addition to the bug comments. Came to a consensus, updated the inbound/sheriff duty docs.
• [edmorley] Sheriff scheduling site blocked on adding timezone feature & admin interface being made available, pinged Peter again.

War on Orange

• [edmorley] More intermittent orange bug/dev chasing.
• [edmorley] Patch to disable the test in bug 668716 for too many intermittent passes.

Signal From Noise

• [jmaher] - switching gears to go heads down on page centric views starting with dromaeo, goal is to find a page by page view that will allow us to turn tbpl orange

Talos

• [jhammel] Updated configuration and completed
• [jhammel] Fixed bug 704654

Mobile Automation

• [jmaher] - no more resolution changing for jsreftest and crashtests (thanks :bc at the workweek)
• [jmaher] - tcheckerboard3 is almost ready to come online
• [jmaher] - SUTAgent 1.08 will be deployed on Monday

Marionette

• jgriffin & mdas attended B2G work week in San Diego
• worked with philikon to improve Marionette ergonomics for B2G developers
• worked on Automation/Build goals list: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-infrastructure
• [dburns] Marionette is passing 164 Selenium tests (161 failed, 164 passed, 9 skipped, 12 deselected, 6 xfailed, 14 error) on Friday

Web QA

• [DBurns] Released Selenium 2.21.3 to fix send_keys issue to type=file elements

Bughunter

• Introduced low rights account for running workers
• Discovered usefulness of sticky bits on user and group permissions when sharing directories among users.
• Finished setting up user vms and announced to crashtestdummies.

New Graphserver (Datazilla)

• [carljm] - Code formatting, dependency handling, setup.py, test-running, and documentation fixes.

autophone/Noah's Ark

• [mcote]: Got caching sort-of working.
• [mcote]: Refactored how and when build metadata is extracted.
• [mcote]: Can run jobs against tinderbox builds from trigger_runs.py.
• [mcote]: Corrected calculation of throbberstart (time of first throbstart message instead of last).
• [mcote]: Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.

Speedtests

• [mcote]: Added V8.

Pulse

• Switch to new server occurring May 17

MozTrap

• [carljm] - Added API key generation and UI.
• [carljm] - Code review for API branch.
• [carljm] - Fixed admin navigation and closed admin-specific logout CSRF hole.

Systems

• [mcote]: Host inventory updated.

Round Table

Take notes here and copy and paste them to this section afterwards.

• [mcote] Please post to mozilla.tools when breaking library APIs, or when big bugs are discovered. E.g. mozillapulse/pulsebuildmonitor, mozmill, etc.
  • [henrik] Any example of when we broke something?

Misc

• [edmorley] Created an intranet page for the London Office since we didn't have one yet; for the A-Team London convergence and other future visitors. Still a WIP, but will add some more to it over coming days.