Bug 347069, “Setup a production SVN server,” was recently RESOLVED as FIXED. This has spurred some confusion, so I wanted to answer some of the common questions we’ve received: Is the Mozilla Project switching to Subversion? There have been many discussions in the past few months about the version control system that the Mozilla project Read More
Some time ago, in a place far, far away in the blogosphere, I received a comment in response to a post rambling about aviation (and my admiration of it) that merely said “There is beauty in things done really well.” I was wasting some time on YouTube the other day, and much like wasting time Read More
Edited to remove extraneous (y’know, productive, work-related) conversation: 11:28 < mento> say my name 11:29 < ss|work> mento: Where’s the “bitch”? It’s supposed to be “say my name bitch” 11:30 < mento> ss|work: yes, but this is a family channel, and i wouldn’t want to upset any of the reeds 11:30 < ss|work> Ah… 11:30 Read More
I mentioned this at the weekly status meeting, but please help me in welcoming MoCo’s newest addition to the seemingly-always-strapped Build Team: TR Fullhart. TR comes to us with years of experience in build automation and scripting, and should be a huge help in the efforts to “de-insanify” our build process and infrastructure. Just the Read More
I honestly don’t know why I even load Slashdot anymore. I tried to make the change to kuro5hin when I tired (some years ago, now) of Slashdork’s continued duplicates and awful spelling and grammar—talk about needing an editor—but it didn’t take. What do the cool kids read for their tech news fix these days? (Do Read More
For those of you watching balsa, our memory leak tinderbox, just a quick heads up that we’ll soon be migrating to the virtualized balsa[s] very soonishly. The new virtual memory leak tinderboxen names are balsa-trunk which, coincidentally enough, does trunkish builds, and balsa-18branch which does—you guessed it—Firefox 1.8 branch builds. bz and I looked at Read More
Tidbit the First: The current Build Team Radars have been posted on wiki.m.o. I did say radars—multiple—as we’ve published August’s monthly radar, but also a longer term, quarterly radar. Astute readers of the two scopes may notice that the monthly radars now have ETA dates, whereas they didn’t before. You may also note that the Read More
While doing some testing today, we found a serious bug that will probably have to be addressed before Beta 2 ships. It has to do with the migration code just barfing on large amounts of input. As Rob Strong notes, it’s currently unclear whether or not it’s a blocker, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Read More