Thunderbird/Infrastructure/TinderboxTLC

Congratulations! You may be the proud new user and/or sheriff of a Mozilla Thunderbird Tinderbox. Here are some important bits of info you should know.

Related Tinderbox Trees

This page primarily relates to the Thunderbird trees: Thunderbird trunk, Thunderbird 3.0, Thunderbird Try

Sheriff

• Due to the low level of commits, and generally stable trees, there isn't normally a sheriff for the Thunderbird trees.
• If there is a sheriff then it will be listed on the appropriate Tinderbox page (There is no sheriff for the Thunderbird Try tinderboxes).
• If in doubt ask on #maildev on irc.mozilla.org.

Uh oh, something broke

Mozilla-* broke the tinderboxes

We pick up the most recent changes from mozilla-central (and appropriate branches). These are tracked on the Firefox tinderboxes.

If there is bustage that looks to be in a mozilla-central part of the build, then its quite possible that it is a mozilla-central bustage. Here's what to do:

• Head over to the appropriate Firefox tinderbox page.
• If the bustage is showing there, then its probably a mozila-central regression, see the instructions there for details.
• If the bustage isn't showing there, there are two possibilites:
  1. it hasn't shown up yet.
  2. a mozilla-central change has broken the Thunderbird builds.

In the latter case, it may be that a bustage fix is required. If the fix is simple, this can normally be checked in stating it is a bustage fix. If the fix is complex, it is normally best to file a bug.

If in doubt, ask in #maildev.

Random Test Failures

Sometimes random failures do happen.

• Frequent random failures known to be specific to Thunderbird are generally listed at the top of the tinderbox pages.
• Known random failures in core (mozilla-central) are listed in the dependencies of bug 438871.
• If the failure isn't listed or already filed, then you should file a bug! A failing test *is always a bug*. It's either a bug in the test or in the code, but it needs to be tracked.

Tinderbox Failures

Clobber required

The tinderboxes didn't build correctly and need a clobber to try and fix them.

Individual builders, or sets of builds can be clobbered here.

If you don't have access for that page ask in #maildev.

If you're a regular committer and have hg access, file a bug to get access.