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Tinderbox, Tinderbox! Wherefore art thou Tinderbox?

After working on problems with tinderboxen for the past week—some on really important branches, like the 1.0.8 security release, others on more... eclectic stuff (read: Cairo)—I've come to the conclusion that we have too many Tinderboxen!1

That was reinforced by the fact that we started running out of space for logfiles on branches that matter, when there were gigabytes of logfiles hanging around that I've never even heard of.

In looking at the main Tinderbox page, I wonder: does anyone care about the following Tinderboxen?

  • Aviary-1.0
  • BlueBird
  • Mozilla1.0
  • Mozilla1.4
  • Mozilla1.5
  • Mozilla1.6
  • Mozilla1.7
  • Phoenix

If so, speak up before the end of next week... otherwise, these tinderboxen (both backend machines and frontend space for logs, etc.) will be on the chopping block.

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1 Technically, that should read "Too many Tinderboxen for us to manage right now."

Posted by preed on February 24, 2006 3:18 PM |

Comments

Since we're doing security checkins on MOZILLA_1_7_BRANCH, the Mozilla1.7 tinderboxen are kinda needed and all.

I don't see any tinderboxen on Mozilla1.0, Mozilla1.4, Mozilla1.5, Mozilla1.6, or Phoenix.

Aviary-1.0 you'll have to check with mscott, since that branch is basically a tbird-only thing as I recall.

Posted by: Anonymous | February 24, 2006 10:39 PM

Since you're calling the Mozilla Suite version 1.7 the final stable release and you're releasing a release off of it soon (1.7.13 I believe), I think those tinderboxen should stay...

Posted by: Samuel Sidler | February 24, 2006 11:15 PM

Since you're doing some cleanup and all... how about hacking showbuilds.cgi to list the 500000000 i18n tinderboxes in a separate list at the end? :)

Posted by: Vlad | February 25, 2006 9:32 PM

Maybe you should post it also to proper newsgroup. If you already did, I'm sorry.

Posted by: Adam Hauner | February 26, 2006 1:30 AM

Chopping the Mozilla1.7 tinderbox will likely result in your death at the hands of Suite fans. ;)

Posted by: Rishi | February 26, 2006 11:35 AM

You _definitely_ need Mozilla1.7, and I think you need Aviary1.0, as they're releasing a Firefox 1.0.8 aren't they?

Posted by: Ian | February 27, 2006 1:33 AM