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L. David Baron

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Oct 3, 2006, 7:36:14 PM10/3/06
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We haven't had any trunk talkback data for 4 days:
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FFTrunk/FFTrunk-topcrashers.html
(I sent email to build about this on Sunday but then forgot to follow up.)

If this isn't fixed in tomorrow's builds I think we should hold the tree
closed until it is, since we need talkback data to learn about crash
regressions.

I suspect the cause is:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354835


(It's actually rather disturbing that we're getting a small amount of
trunk talkback data. That suggests people are using talkback components
with unmatched builds. We should probably make it harder for people to
do that.)

-David

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Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation

pal-moz

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Oct 4, 2006, 12:14:53 AM10/4/06
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it's easy to fix this bug,

in install.rdf, both Talkbask and DOMi,
revise
<em:minVersion></em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion></em:maxVersion>
to
(Thunderbird)
<em:minVersion>3.0a1</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>3.0a1</em:maxVersion>
(Sunbird)
<em:minVersion>0.4a1</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>0.4a1</em:maxVersion>
(Suite)
<em:minVersion>1.5a</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>1.5a</em:maxVersion>

after this,
delete extensions.ini, extensions.rdf, and extensions.cache in profile,
and then restart Minefield.

all extensions work again.

Peter Lairo

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Oct 4, 2006, 6:39:51 AM10/4/06
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L. David Baron wrote on 04.10.2006 01:36:
> We haven't had any trunk talkback data for 4 days:
> http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FFTrunk/FFTrunk-topcrashers.html
> (I sent email to build about this on Sunday but then forgot to follow up.)
>
> If this isn't fixed in tomorrow's builds I think we should hold the tree
> closed until it is, since we need talkback data to learn about crash
> regressions.

Why? You would still get feedback from us lowly trunk-testers/users. :-\
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Regards,

Peter Lairo

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L. David Baron

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Oct 4, 2006, 11:56:16 AM10/4/06
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On Wednesday 2006-10-04 12:39 +0200, Peter Lairo wrote:
> L. David Baron wrote on 04.10.2006 01:36:
> >We haven't had any trunk talkback data for 4 days:
> >http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FFTrunk/FFTrunk-topcrashers.html
> >(I sent email to build about this on Sunday but then forgot to follow up.)
> >
> >If this isn't fixed in tomorrow's builds I think we should hold the tree
> >closed until it is, since we need talkback data to learn about crash
> >regressions.
>
> Why? You would still get feedback from us lowly trunk-testers/users. :-\

Because there's no other way to tell when random/unreproducable crashes
start and stop. They're already hard enough to analyze when we know
only which day's checkins caused them.

L. David Baron

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Oct 4, 2006, 12:17:56 PM10/4/06
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On Tuesday 2006-10-03 16:36 -0700, L. David Baron wrote:
> We haven't had any trunk talkback data for 4 days:
> http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FFTrunk/FFTrunk-topcrashers.html
> (I sent email to build about this on Sunday but then forgot to follow up.)
>
> If this isn't fixed in tomorrow's builds I think we should hold the tree
> closed until it is, since we need talkback data to learn about crash
> regressions.
>

For the record, this patch has been checked in, and talkback is fixed in
today's builds.

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