April 29, 2005
- Status update for week of April 29, 2005 - News - 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... (16:27 | 0 Comments)