Yep, we definitely need to move development repos over to mozilla-aurora or else locally run tests will not be applicable to the built product.
-Alex On Oct 9, 2012, at 2:19 PM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > That change switched the nightly manifest branch. That is only for nightly > builds, but that means that we're still using mozilla-central for > development. As central and aurora further diverge, the code that developers > are working on and testing the most is less similar to what we're shipping. > > If we keep nightly on aurora and master on central, there isn't really effect > on the normal developer workflow and nothing needs to be backed out. > > John > > > > On Oct 9, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Alex Keybl wrote: > >> mwu committed >> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest/commit/619a55c60eb6b15ebce52afe08f889855036fc64 >> already. If you've got concerns about the workflow effect on devs, we >> should probably back it out in the short term. >> >> Thanks for following up on this John. >> >> -Alex >> >> On Oct 9, 2012, at 1:44 PM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We already have a nightly branch of b2g-manifest. It's easy to switch from >>> mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora on both nightly and master. My only >>> concern is what happens to the local repositories that developers are >>> using. Switching repositories for gecko causes a lot of churn. Because >>> the releng maintained git mirrors use out of tree branching (i.e. separate >>> repositories) instead of an in-tree branch, we need to be careful about how >>> we change the manifests as there is a possibility that developer's local >>> repositories are messed up by this switch. >>> >>> I am testing this change and will reply to this thread when I have more >>> information on how we can make this change with minimal headache. When we >>> have a plan, I will make the changes to the manifests. >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> On Oct 9, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Jonathan Griffin wrote: >>> >>>> Alex, >>>> >>>>> Jonathan will need to move Nightly/Stable builds over to mozilla-aurora >>>>> from mozilla-central for tonight's build, given the FF18 base. >>>>> >>>> >>>> The nightly builds utilize the build manifests at >>>> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest to select repos. I believe >>>> these likely need to change to point to the aurora branch. If we do that, >>>> then the builders will pick up this change automatically. mwu owns these. >>>> >>>> If there is some reason not to update those, then I can hack the builder >>>> to use aurora instead. >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> dev-b2g mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >>> >> > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
