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Keeping track of buildbot usage
Mozilla Release Engineering provides some simple trending of the Buildbot continuous integration system, which can be useful to check how many jobs are currently running versus pending. There are...
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Deprecating our old rsync modules
We’ve removed the rsync modules mozilla-current and mozilla-releases today, after calling for comment a few months ago and hearing no objections. Those modules were previously used to deliver Firefox...
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ZNC and Mozilla IRC
ZNC is great for having a persistent IRC connection, but it’s not so great when the IRC server or network has a blip. Then you can end up failing to rejoin with nthomas (…) has joined #releng nthomas...
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Plans for 2015 – Revamping the Release Automation
Mozilla’s Release Engineering team has been through several major iterations of our “release automation”, which is how we produce the bits for Firefox betas and releases. With each incarnation, the...
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FileMerge bug
FileMerge is a nice diff and merge tool for OS X, and I use it a lot for larger code reviews where lots of context is helpful. It also supports intra-line diff, which comes in pretty handy. However in...
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Changes coming to ftp.mozilla.org
ftp.mozilla.org has been around for a long time in the world of Mozilla, dating back to original source release in 1998. Originally it was a single server, but it’s grown into a cluster storing more...
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Try Server – please use up-to-date code to avoid upload failures
Today we started serving an important set of directories on ftp.mozilla.org using Amazon S3, more details on that over in the newsgroups. Some configuration changes landed in the tree to make that...
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Updates disabled for Android Nightly and Aurora
Due to a bug with the new ftp server we’ve had to disable updates for Firefox for Android Nightly Firefox for Android Aurora They’ll resume just as soon as we can get the fix landed. Update (Oct 25th):...
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The latest on firefox/releases/latest
The primary way to download Firefox is at www.mozilla.org, but Mozilla’s Release Engineering team has also maintained directories like https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/ to provide a...
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Updates for Nightly on Windows
You may have noticed that Windows has had no updates for Nightly for the last week or so. We’ve had a few issues with signing the binaries as part of moving from a SHA-1 certificate to SHA-2. This...
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