ReleaseEngineering/Applications/Clobberer

Application Description

The clobberer allows developers to "clobber" particular build directories (objdirs) on particular slaves. This is sometimes necessary if a change is committed that is not compatible with previous objdirs, or occasionally when a compile failure results in a bogus objdir.

The application has an outward-facing web interface for developers, and also provides an internal web service which buildslaves contact to determine what build directories they should clobber.

There are several vhosts involved here:

• API

   * http://clobberer.pvt.build.mozilla.org - production API
   * http://clobberer-preproduction.pvt.build.mozilla.org - preproduction API
   * http://clobberer-stage.pvt.build.mozilla.org - staging API

• UI

   * production
       * http://clobberer.pub.build.mozilla.org - http 302
       * https://secure.pub.build.mozilla.org/clobberer - https
   * staging
       * http://clobberer-stage.pub.build.mozilla.org - http 302
       * https://secure.pub.build.mozilla.org/clobberer-stage - https for UI (staging)

Requirements

• MySQL server (SQLite is also possible, but we are using MySQL in production and staging)
• PHP and Apache

Resources

• two MySQL databases (production and staging)
• runs on the releng web cluster

Security

Clobberer uses the LDAP username verified and supplied by Apache, with some users having slightly elevated priviledges (the ability to clobber release jobs).

More

See the websites page