Auto-tools/Projects/Mozbase/Automation-Refactor/Meetings/2013-10-29

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October 29th, 2013 @ 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT

dial-in:

• vidyo: Jgriffin's vidyo room
  • guest link: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=vjLJS93feY9p

Backchannel #ateam on irc.mozilla.org

Take meeting notes here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/great-automation-refactor Then copy and paste them below afterwards

Meeting Notes

Quick Status Updates

• mozbase sync finished (I think?)
  • mozrunner, mozprofile, mozprocess and a few other packages already synced
  • jhammel has a bug to mirror manifestdestiny

Issues of the Two Weeks

• mozprocess issues?
  • jgriffin introduced https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932382; will fix
  • Win8 timeout still outstanding - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920952; this *might* be fixed by porting https://github.com/mozilla/mozbase/commit/576b5285c981b6ba938cb1f8716aa96cd7e3b046 to the Windows code path
• wptserver/mozhttpd
  • don't want to call it mozhttpd since can be used by w3c/others
  • https://github.com/jgraham/wptserve
  • should use the same api, eventually deprecate mozhttpd?
  • wlach will do a code review
• structured logging - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916295
  • short term - get mochitest using it?
    • See: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/testing/mochitest/runtests.py#1048
  • long term - ??
  • how might we use the data?
  • TODO:
    • define common format for structured logs in test harnesses (bug 916260)
    • documentation of format
    • update xpcshell to use format
    • jgriffin to talk to gaia team about it
    • ahal to finish mochitest structured logging