Running Windows 7 & XP jobs on ix hardware

[Armen Zambrano G.]

Hi all,
As of today, we run in parallel Windows 7 and Windows XP on iX hardware
as well as on minis.

Current status:
* Windows 7 on iX is running *visible* on FF23 based trees
* Windows XP on iX is running *hidden* on m-i, try and cedar

Sometime after Tuesday, I will:
* Evaluate and propose a date for Win7 on iX to take over rev3 minis
** I have to fix a couple of issues
* Make visible WinXP on iX (if it looks good)
** We will also enable it on all appropriate trees (if it looks good)

We're also increasing the Windows ix pools (xp/w7/w8) a 30% (130 nodes
each).

If you find any blockers please add it to one of the bugs below.

best regards,
Armen

https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Mozilla-Inbound&jobname=Windows%207
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770578

https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Mozilla-Inbound&jobname=Windows%20XP
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770579

[Armen Zambrano G.]

On 2013-05-17 1:07 PM, Armen Zambrano G. wrote:
> * Windows XP on iX is running *hidden* on m-i, try and cedar

I didn't see any perma-oranges so I made them visible.

I will be adding the remaining branches tomorrow.

cheers,
Armen

[Armen Zambrano G.]

Hi all,
I would like to propose that we hide all Win7 and WinXP jobs running on
rev3 minis since we have things running on the iX hardware.

We would like to determine if we are ready to stop running jobs on the
rev3 minis before stopping them.

If you have no objections I will hide the builders by EOD.
We can re-visit on Monday if we are ready to go ahead and stop running
jobs on rev3 minis.

There are some intermittent oranges that would be nice to deal with
sooner than later (I have CCed the test owners were applicable):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870453
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=874922

best regards,
Armen

PS = We will keep on running it for m-b, m-r, esr17 and b2g release
branches. We will ride the trains.

On 2013-05-17 1:07 PM, Armen Zambrano G. wrote:

[Armen Zambrano G.]

I did not do this last night.
I will be doing this now and take into account the request of mbrubeck.

On 2013-05-22 11:38 AM, Matt Brubeck wrote:

> On 5/22/2013 10:22 AM, Armen Zambrano G. wrote:
>> We would like to determine if we are ready to stop running jobs on the
>> rev3 minis before stopping them.
>>
>> If you have no objections I will hide the builders by EOD.
>> We can re-visit on Monday if we are ready to go ahead and stop running
>> jobs on rev3 minis.
>

> My one concern is bug 859571, which prevents us from getting useful
> ts_paint data on the iX talos slaves:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=859571
>
> If possible, we should keep the "talos other" and "talos dirtypaint"
> jobs running and visible on the old hardware until that is fixed.