pacifica-vm, which most of you probably know as the Firefox 2 Windows nightly build machine, has had an interesting week. Last week, I took the machine down to back up its virtual disk image, increase the amount of RAM available to it, and, in an attempt to decrease the cycle-time, added a VMware virtual-CPU to Read More
Mid said: “You should post the translated version of that Quote of the Day; it’s much funnier.” So, I present… the TQOTD: More seriously, if the spirit of Free, it is râler by saying that Firefox is not Libre because of the trade mark, I am not sure that that is a spirit which attracts Read More
If you ever hear me complaining about crosswind landings, just remind me that I really don’t have all that bad… *** I’ve been surprised—nay, amazed—at how clear it’s been in the evenings here in the Bay Area lately. I’m hoping it stays that way all through winter, for it makes flying at night, one of Read More
“I’m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon!”
I presented my overview of Mozilla’s Build System to Seneca’s Topics in Open Source course this morning: 13:33 <vlad> how’d preed’s talk go? 13:34 <Moe> vlad: he had an awesome sport jersey 13:34 <Moe> with a lizard 13:34 <Moe> thats all i took from the lecture 13:34 <Moe> oh and of course there was that Read More
Tonight, with help from morgamic and sspitzer, we’ve published Firefox’s first ever “major update.” This type of update is intended to pull people from (for instance) 1.5.0.7 to 2.0. We won’t be immediately publishing any major updates (including that particular update path). It includes the ability to display EULAs and allow users to ignore the Read More
I’m about to board the Air Canada red-eye1 to present to Seneca’s Open Source course on the wonderful and intriguing world of Mozilla builds! The TSA was intent on taking my deodorant, so if something smells amiss… remember, it was all to save freedom. _____________ 1 Yes, yes, perfect timing… I know…
In case you’ve only ever read this “blahg” via its RSS feed, the tagline reads “What does a Build Engineer do all day, anyway?” I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the answer to that question. When I think about what my answer actually is, day-in-day-out—doing builds, triaging broken builds, restarting automatic builds, respinning builds, Read More
You’d think 1.9 terrabytes of disk storage would be enough for Mozilla’s builds, but… it’s not. In fact, with all the simultaneous releases going on lately, we’ve had to spend a lot of time babysitting the chronically under-spaced stage.m.o. Fortunately, we now have a replacement and a plan to get us using it. In addition Read More
Last Friday, after [*cough* too many *cough*] hours of flight time[due entirely to me dragging my own feet], I drove out to the Palo Alto Airport and took my private pilot checkride with FAA-designated pilot examiner Mike Shiflett. The first part—the oral test—went smoothly… and quickly! I then gathered the weather for the second part, Read More