EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2011-10-03

RoundTable

• Should have first draft goals by end of the day...still would like to hear from some folks regarding what they want to accomplish this quarter.

Goals

• Work with release engineering to reduce overall end-to-end time from push to test result to an average of 2 hours.
• Ensure all harnesses and tests are E10S ready
• Improve performance testing by finalizing user-activated addons performance system, xperf-enabled performance testing, and automating a user responsiveness performance test.

Automation

• Go Faster (P1) - jgriffin, ted, mdas, bc, ctalbert, wlach
  • no updates
  • debug build with optimization landed, backed out
  • PGO should land this week (tomorrow)

• Mobile Support (P1) - jmaher, bmoss, ctalbert
  • Pushed several fixes to production last week
  • Down to about 15% failure rate, which is better than before the all hands
  • Working on reftest failure issue
  • Bear and Aki investigating pulling out the cleanup scripts during general running
  • android only opengl tests landing in staging later this week

• Bug Hunter (P1) - bc, jeads
  • All mac minis in office are up and running
  • jeads has WIP patch up for the UI, should be ready for review within the week

• Mozmill 2.0/1.5.x (P1) - jhammel, harth, ctalbert
  • mozmill 1.5.5 released
  • wrapping up mozmill 2.0 bugs
  • slating for mozmill + e10s (mozmill 2.1)

• Crossweave 2 - jgriffin
  • Working on adding addon support to TPS, should get it wrapped up this week.

Performance

• Talos/User Responsiveness (P1) - anode, ted
  • Hit an issue on mac os x 10.5
  • Will is taking over for Alice here
  • Discussion is still ongoing with discussing the metric.
  • Will need to investigate whether we can use existing tp5 for this or not (once the 10.5 machine is fixed).

• Talos/Addon Testing Service (P1) - anode
  • DONE!

• Talos/General (P1) - anode
  • Getting lots of good ideas from wlach on making it easier to use, rolling those out
  • Rolled out mozafterpaint into mozilla-central.

• Talos/Xperf (P2) - jmaher
  • DONE

• SpeedTests (P2) - mcote
  • Added MazeSolver and test262 tests.
  • Instructed ahal in client-update procedures.
  • Blogged about it and updated the bug (recently assigned to me) and wiki page.
  • Fixing up OS X client.

• Eideticker (P2) - mcote, wlach
  • Project synopsis now on public wiki
  • Prototyping something using Talos for now. Progress update here: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.tools/browse_thread/thread/fece030cd89f5ff1#
    • To talos or not to talos?

• User Responsiveness Regression - ahal
  • Wrapping up prototype stage, few minor issues to work out
  • Will start working on Mozmill + e10s this week

Web Tools

• War on Orange/Auto-log (P1) - jgriffin, mcote
  • Bug Correlations view online.
  • On-going discussion about the orange-first-occurrence estimation tool.
  • Adding Talos oranges into orange factor

• Bugzilla Improvements (P1) - dkl, glob
  • Glob is on vacation
  • Working on slowness issues with general activities - adding comment, enter bug page, etc
    • Still tracking down what is going on.
  • Made patch to send a preview of the patch you're about to review with the "review request" email.

• Regression Hunter (P1) - harth
  • DONE

• DXR Automation/Support {P2} - mdas
  • Malini out

• Personal Bugzilla Dashboard (P2) - harth
  • Still making progress, new version this week.
  • Please keep sending suggestions

Tool Infrastructure

• SpecialPowers (P1) - jmaher, ted
  • Still blocked on bug 621363

• MozBase (P2) - jmaher, jhammel, ted
  • met with aki about mozharness, some good information there
  • some planning, less coding
  • ahal wrote a mozlog utility
  • code now lives in mozilla organization on github, mozbase repo.

• Web UX Platform (P2) - mcote, harth
  • Fixed a bug in the app server; services should stop & start properly on brasstacks now, and new services should be added cleanly.

• flyingtanks - mcote
  • Secreview on WOO passed; setting up a mirror on flyingtanks at some point.

• Tegra Pool - tfair
  • Up and running at 10.250.2.108:8080. You can checkout one of our two tegras!

Misc

• Thanks, Mike!