Friday, March 31st, 2006
it’s really hard to context-switch from lofty, 40,000 feet discussions of organizational values, communication dynamics, innovation vs. maintenance considerations, requirements discussions for various development support systems, and how we’d like to fix what’s broken and maximize what’s not to… “respin this build” and “that Tinderbox is broken” and “Where are these builds?” and “That tag is set incorrectly…”
Talk about an “emergency decent” to meet a release schedule…
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Mac universal binaries for Bon Echo Alpha 1 are finally available.
The source tarball too.
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
In a time warp wormhole temporal loop nexus bubble reminscent of the worst Star Trek plot-crutch, the rest of Earth caught up with /. today, when Firefox 2.0a1 (sshhhh! Don’t call it that) Bon Echo Alpha 1 was actually released.
In a way, I wish the reports had been right: I’ve been sick for the last three days (breathing is overrated, let me tell you!), so hearing that that the release was done without me having to lift a finger would’ve been… nice.
Now quick: someone go publish that 1.5.0.2 and 1.0.8 are all out the door, too, so I can get some rest!
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
Most of the time, our Build Farm makes me a very unhappy camper.
This is because most of the time, I’m interacting with it in a firefighting/rescuing builds from a burning tree building role.
There are a lot of machines in the Farm that are reviled (gaius, anyone?), and they get a lot of attention.
But there are other machines that, for the most part, quietly do their job, day in and day out, and we never hear from them and they become the well-behaved, but unloved and ignored children of the Build Farm.
Today, I was introduced to such a child when I logged into a particular machine doing Linux 1.0.x Firefox builds, and noticed this:
cltbld@madcow tinderbox]$ uptime
6:03pm up 351 days, 23:37, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.18, 0.09
With a name like madcow, I wouldn’t expect such… stability.
But there you have it: our Build Farm star of the week!
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V17
Friday, March 17th, 2006
After some trials and tribulations (and lots of Tinderbox hugging), we finally have universal binaries for 1.5.0.2!
I just noticed they’re being uploaded to the wrong location, so I’ll have to fix that, but you can find the mixed-endianess here.
When they move, you can find the builds via the tinderbox-with-the-boring-name (and a “UniversalBinaries” tag), on the 1.8.0 Tinderbox page.
Special shout out to Mento and Josh, who helped us (me) tremendously in getting these builds available.
Truth be told, it took a little longer than it otherwise might have because…
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