chase's blog

Highlights
- Firefox hit 50 million downloads!
- SVG now included in Firefox trunk builds for Windows and Mac
- Lead Sysadmin position notice posted on MoFo careers page
- 2 new Mac build systems added, full configuration pending
- met with bclary about JavaScript QA while he visited MoFo
- met with tor about SVG while he visited MoFo

SVG
- Windows and Mac build systems configured to build SVG and their builds now include SVG by default. Using it requires flipping a pref since it's disabled by default. (bugs 285177, 285178)
- new Linux build system capable of building with SVG enabled, overcoming problems in building profiled (bug 292377)

New build systems
- Six new systems: 2 dual G5 XServes, 4 dual Xeon HP DL360 G4s
- Worked out cabinet depth problems at colo, two XServes (atlantia and triton) are now properly mounted, attached to network
- One XServe (atlantia) is serving as the Firefox trunk build system
- One XServe (triton) is allocated to Firefox aviary branch, next step to configure
- One DL360 (prometheus) is configured as a Linux build system, shaking out profiled build problems
- One DL360 has Windows Server 2003 installed, next step to add build tools
- One DL360 has a hardware problem that led to reboots while OS was installing
- One DL360 hasn't yet been tested

Firefox 1.0.3
- made he-IL build links on firefox/all.html live

Deer Park
- meetings, emails
- provide feedback and thoughts on software update to darin, ben, dougt, dveditz

Et cetera
- MIME::tools, potential use of this CPAN module in the build scripts to send multiple files to the Tinderbox server (rather than just the build log)
- ideas to speed up CVS checkout for some of our build systems
- staff meeting

Q: What OS do they all run on, and why Windows Server 2003? Something it can do that Linux can't?

Posted by: Joey at April 30, 2005 8:35 AM

Maybe they need a Windows box and not a Linux box :D? See, there are people that want to use Windows...

Posted by: mcsmurf at April 30, 2005 1:47 PM

Hi Chase,
is there any chance on getting one or more Sunbird tinderboxen?

Posted by: Simon Paquet at April 30, 2005 4:17 PM

Joey: As mcsmurf points out, there are some things we provide that only a Windows system can do for us. In this case, we use these Windows systems to build our Windows binaries (and Mac systems for Mac binaries, and Linux systems for Linux binaries).

Simon: Let's talk offline about this. Drop me a line.

Posted by: Chase at May 2, 2005 11:24 AM