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, Read More
12:26 <@preed> it hasn’t moved to the head of the list (by any stretch), but… this will get it on my radar. 12:26 <@preed> (whereas before, not so much. 12:27 <dmose> preed: i’m happy to do the hands-on work myself if that’s appropriate … 12:27 <@preed> it’s funny… Justin and I were talking yesterday, and Read More
Coop and I were discussing this morning how it’s easy for build-related requests to get lost in #firefox and #developers. There is a #build on irc.mozilla.org, but it was previously used for build team chatter. It’s been opened now though, so if you: Have a build/release engineering request that’s not getting seen in other channels… Read More
I had to ship “something” (a gadget) back to a company today. This item came to the office in a box, of course. But, it actually shipped in an outer… “shipping” box. This box was lost in a horrible horrible misplaced-box-janitor-cleanup-destruction accident. Thusly, to ship my item back, I needed to another “shipping” (outer) box. Read More
Of everyone’s amount-they’ll-miss-you per time-they’ve-known-you ratio, mine is the highest.