I was reading about infamous Microsoft Technical “Evangelist” Jim Plamondon, at the suggestion of Matt Ray; I found this gem: Mopping Up can be a lot of fun. In the Mopping Up phase, Evangelism’s goal is to put the final nail into the competing technology’s coffin, and bury it in the burning depths of the Read More
(Editor’s note: I don’t mean to be banging the drum on Git this week, but Mike Fiedler and I were talking about this yesterday, and I’ve been meaning to write this for awhile, so…) I apparently have a bit of a reputation for being a “Git hater.” While I understand where it comes from, the Read More
In response to my post earlier this week on Tinderbox’s end-of-life, reader Carsten Mattner asked: Reading [your post], I couldn’t figure out what replaced Tinderbox for the Mozilla builds. What feeds tbpl? Does Mozilla not use Tinderbox to build continuously? When I left Mozilla in 2007, there was a Release Engineering project in progress to Read More
About a month ago, I noticed a tweet from Coop: Pouring out a little liquor for tinderbox today. Drinking the rest, because, you know, tinderbox. It linked to a mozilla.dev.planning post describing the plan to end-of-life Tinderbox1. As one of a handful of people who was required in an employment-capacity to support Tinderbox in production2,3, Read More