Upcoming changes to nightly builds

[Chris AtLee]

We're going to be deploying a change[1] shortly that makes us stop doing
nightly builds on branches with no activity.

If a branch doesn't have any changes on its main code repository or
associated l10n repositories in the last 24 hours, then new builds won't
be triggered.

This also means that no new updates will be published to users on
nightly, aurora or similar channels.

Cheers,
Chris

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650258

[Axel Hecht]

Is there a QA plan/point person to make sure that we're triggering
builds when we're expecting them and that we don't if we don't?

Axel

[Juan Becerra]

Not at the moment.

What's the easiest way to check for this?

juanb

Axel

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[Chris Hofmann]

On 7/18/11 1:39 PM, Chris AtLee wrote:
> We're going to be deploying a change[1] shortly that makes us stop
> doing nightly builds on branches with no activity.
>
> If a branch doesn't have any changes on its main code repository or
> associated l10n repositories in the last 24 hours, then new builds
> won't be triggered.
>
> This also means that no new updates will be published to users on
> nightly, aurora or similar channels.
>

I just asked joduin about axel's concern in comment 17
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650258#c17

The concern there is that we would not be triggering new builds when a
locale has no string updates, but en-US has new core changes. That
would leave our testing community outside the US stranded on older
builds where the localizers haven't updated for new strings.

It sounds like that is not the case, and we will get new builds and
updates for all locales that we are actively building on any branch if
core gecko changes.

-chofmann

> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650258

[Chris AtLee]

On 18/07/11 06:17 PM, Chris Hofmann wrote:
> On 7/18/11 1:39 PM, Chris AtLee wrote:
>> We're going to be deploying a change[1] shortly that makes us stop
>> doing nightly builds on branches with no activity.
>>
>> If a branch doesn't have any changes on its main code repository or
>> associated l10n repositories in the last 24 hours, then new builds
>> won't be triggered.
>>
>> This also means that no new updates will be published to users on
>> nightly, aurora or similar channels.
>>
> I just asked joduin about axel's concern in comment 17
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650258#c17
>
> The concern there is that we would not be triggering new builds when a
> locale has no string updates, but en-US has new core changes. That would
> leave our testing community outside the US stranded on older builds
> where the localizers haven't updated for new strings.
>
> It sounds like that is not the case, and we will get new builds and
> updates for all locales that we are actively building on any branch if
> core gecko changes.

That is correct. If "something" changes, we trigger a full set of builds
and repacks, where "something" include the core source repo (e.g.
mozilla-central) and its associated l10n repos. Only if nothing has
changed (or nothing successfully built in the past 24 hours) do we not
generate any builds or repacks.

[Axel Hecht]

On 19.07.11 00:00, Juan Becerra wrote:
> Not at the moment.
>
> What's the easiest way to check for this?

I don't have an easy idea, does someone in releng?

Axel

[Al Billings]

Are we thinking of doing this for the 1.9.2 branch?

[Chris AtLee]

It's also on for the 1.9.2 branch.

On Wed 20 Jul 2011 04:47:05 PM EDT, Al Billings wrote:
> Are we thinking of doing this for the 1.9.2 branch?
>
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Chris AtLee wrote:
>