Thursday, December 22, 2011

talos.zip, talos.json and you

I have deployed today a small change that modifies how we deploy talos.zip to the performance/talos jobs.

In short what the change does is this:
That's it. Nothing else. Nothing more.

How does this help?
  • Every new talos.zip we place under build.m.o will require a commit on the tree
  • Only when the change lands on the repo that talos.zip will be used
  • A newer talos.zip will only be used from that changeset onwards
  • Any regressions caused by the new talos.zip will be blamed to a changeset on the tree
  • Such changeset can be backed out by anyone without the need of releng
What are other side-effects?
  • We can run a talos.zip through the try server and use compare-talos
  • We don't need a downtime anymore to land a talos.zip
  • The new talos.zip cannot affect any other branches
  • We can run an old changeset with the talos.zip that was used for it
  • We can extend the talos.json file to control other moving parts like plugins
If we could summarize it in one sentence it would be:
"One changeset, one talos.zip"

This different model is not new as Jetpack already had it (jetpack-location.txt).
This model locks every changeset on a tree to a specific state of an external force.
In other words, we can configure parameters from inside tree.

Best regards,
Armen

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673131


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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

How to exclude a file from being exported in Narro


  1. Browse to the file
  2. Uncheck "Export with project"
How to exclude a file from being exported in Narro

This is useful when there are files that require explicit approval from L10n release drivers.
We recently changed our search engines for Armenian and a Narro export reverted the changes. This caused Axel to file a regression bug for me to fix it.


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This work by Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.