Oh, Snap! 2.0
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Overheard today:
I don’t want to date him-and-his-f@!*#ing-blog.
mozilla, planetmoz
blahblahblah | 4 Comments »
V35
Archive for May, 2006
“First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?”
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
rhelmer applied the first release tag to the tree—FIREFOX_1_5_0_4_RC3—since the CVS server upgrade.
It took just under four minutes to complete.
For comparison, the old CVS server?
Forty minutes. On a good day morning at 4 am.
(This is the point in the story where we all go hug justdave.)
Went to the Flock presentation this morning on the Browser Technology track. I’ve never used Flock, so it was interesting to see the demo and look at some of the features they have.
I asked what their automated update story was, since there have been two or three releases of Firefox since the release they’re using (which, as I understand it, is 1.5 still).
They said “We couldn’t find the code for the automatic updates stuff.” Which we know about and are working on fixing. (In fact, I’ve been working on it at XTech!)
So, how did they solve this problem?
“We wrote our own replacement.”
mozilla, planetmoz
Releng Machinery | 6 Comments »
V34
Microsummaries + performance data = a Sheriff’s best deputy?
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
I found Myk’s XTech talk on microsummaries very interesting.
Last night at dinner, I believe it was Axel who was suggesting that publishing tinderbox performance data as an RSS feed might offer some interesting possibilities.
At first, I didn’t see the point of doing that exactly, but with microsummaries, a tree sheriff could put all the branches they’re supposed to be watching in their toolbar, so they wouldn’t have to scan a huge tinderbox page all day. Could maybe even whip up some XSLT (was it?) to make them change colors if the performance numbers jump outside of some pre-defined range.
Of course, the cool thing about microsummaries is you don’t necessarily need the RSS feed, it sounds like.
It’s an interesting idea, though… is there a more consumable format for perf data than we currently offer/publish?
mozilla, planetmoz
Releng Machinery | 3 Comments »
V33
Jitter Bug
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
One of the largest hurdles with the virtualization migration plan was this huge unknown question of whether or not the tinderboxen performing tests could be virtualized.
Now that we have one (somewhat modern) tinderboxen—argo— cloned in a VM and running in physical hardware, we do have some data to look at.
“argo’s” data is actually a bit confusing, because while the machine instance was cloned, not migrated, the machine’s identity was cloned; that is, “argo” on May 10th was a physical machine; “argo” after May 10th was a virtual machine. And then, “argo” once again became a physical machine on May 16th, with the virtual machine copy appearing on the tinderbox page as “argo-vm.”
On to the graphs!
mozilla, planetmoz
Releng Machinery | Comments Off
V32
Welcome to Amsterdam, where the local time is OH MAN DO I NEED A SHOWER…
Monday, May 15th, 2006
After almost 16 hours of travel, I finally made it into Amsterdam, and have gotten settled. I even got a good night’s sleep last night, so I’m mostly over the jet lag (although, my laptop’s clock says it’s currently 5:52 am PDT, a reminder that is really not helping matters…)
This trip has been particularly interesting thus far, since it’s the first time I’ve been out of the country. Evar.
The flight was interesting, especially for a flyboy like myself. The transatlantic aircraft-separation-and-communication bit was of particular interest to me… and, of course, trying to figure out what air traffic controllers in Germany were referring to, despite the fact that they speak English on the frequency.
The most amusing part of the 9+ hour flight was being seated next to this old couple; they started having a conversation—in only the way an old married couple can have a conversation—about how much alcohol they should drink, and whether or not they were supposed to take it with the sleeping pills, or not take it with the sleeping pills, and whether or not the “jet lag” pills were the same as the sleeping pills (and whether or not they could take the jetlag pills with alcohol… and… etc., etc., etc.)
A few minutes after that, the husband said to his wife: “Smell this. [Holds up a travel bag.] The bourbon’s leaking.”
Then they proceeded to open the bag and take out sports bottles full of… “apple cider.” Then the wife said “Wait, is it the scotch leaking or the bourbon leaking?”
Then they started arguing about what scotch and bourbon smell like.
I dont’ know what they eventually decided, but about an hour after this, they both fell asleep… and were completely out of it for the rest of the entire flight.
mozilla, planetmoz
blahblahblah | Comments Off
V31